Join us for a captivating discussion with Artist Sama Alshaibi on re-imagining the female figure in war & conflict.

In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots and Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali, will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work.

This conversation is part of a joint Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas.

In conversation with the artist Amitis Motavelli, we will discuss her work in relation to cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict, and war.

Recent spasms of activism (throughout the world) and massive governmental reform has brought great change to the GCC countries in the creative sectors in terms of trying to breach the gap of representation, recognition, and value, as well as in terms of openness, conversations, and communications. How have these changes impacted the cultural ecosystem and specifically the art world? With more diverse voices being heard, do we have different exhibitions and curatorial discourses? Does gender impact the input and the outcome? It is interesting to ask these questions, to pause and ponder the process of the systemic change we are experiencing: where are we on its timeline? What have we learned and what still needs to be done? If there is such a thing as ‘gendered perspective on culture,' how does it function and translate into the everyday art world, within the realm of museums, institutions, curators, and artists?

November 18th, 12pm - 1pm
Register now for this webinar event with Tania El Khoury.

October 4th, 2pm - 3pm
Join this conversation with Manijeh Nasrabadi on October 4th, where they will discuss the current uprising in Iran.

May 5
Please join us for a performance and discussion within the Gender and Body Politics Art Series examining intersecting inequalities and body politics expressed and transgressed in visual and performance art, followed by an audience Q+A.

In this opening event to the Gender and Body Politics Art Series, we will be in conversation with Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.