Reviews
4Columns
Iman Mersal’s The Threshold, 4Columns (2022)
Huguette Caland at the Drawing Center, 4Columns (2021)
Ahlam Shibli’s Minor Detail, 4Columns (2020)
Mrinalini Mukherjee at the Met Breuer, 4Columns (2019)
Etel Adnan at MASS MoCA, 4Columns (2018)
Aperture
Taysir Batniji: A Harrowing Meditation on Capturing Life in Gaza, Aperture (2024)
The Photographers Who Captured Love and Longing, Aperture (2023)
Gillian Wearing Channels a Spiritual History of Photography, Aperture (2022)
In Okwui Enwezor’s Final Exhibition, an Urgent Portrait of American Life, Aperture (2021)
In a Bracing Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Artists Challenge How History Is Told, Aperture (2021)
At Documenta, Blurred Lines Between Art and Photography, Aperture (2017)
Artforum
Rayyane Tabet’s “The Return” at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Artforum (2023)
Katia Kameli at Bétonsalon—centre d’art et de recherche, Artforum (2023)
Omar Mismar at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2022)
The Right Connections: On Bassem Saad’s Congress of Idling Persons, Artforum (2022)
Shuruq Harb at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2021)
Freedom Songs: On “For a Free Palestine: Films by Palestinian Women,” Artforum (2021)
Helen Frankenthaler at Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Artforum (2019)
Feint Praise: On “How to Reappear” at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2019)
Fourth Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Artforum (2019)
“Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince” at Pioneer Works, Artforum (2018)
Fault Lines: “Contemporary Arab Cinema” at BAM, Artforum (2018)
Marlene Dumas at David Zwirner, Artforum (2018)
Joe Overstreet at Eric Firestone Loft, Artforum (2018)
Moyra Davey at Galerie Buchholz, Artforum (2018)
Seeds of Change: On Jumana Manna’s Wild Relatives, Artforum (2018)
Peter Hujar at the Morgan Library and Museum, Artforum (2018)
Gordon Parks at Jack Shainman Gallery, Artforum (2018)
Farah Al Qasimi at Helena Anrather, Artforum (2018)
Cecily Brown at Paula Cooper Gallery, Artforum (2018)
Ahmad Ghossein at Marfa’ Projects, Artforum (2017)
Waddah Faris at Salah Barakat Gallery, Artforum (2017)
Hassan Khan at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2017)
Saba Innab at Marfa’ Projects, Artforum (2016)
“The Arab Nude” at AUB Art Galleries, Artforum (2016)
Come Undone: On Tamer El-Said’s In the Last Days of the City, Artforum (2016)
Marwan Rechmaoui at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Artforum (2016)
Walid Raad at the Museum of Modern Art, Artforum (2016)
Nathalie Khayat at Agial Art Gallery, Artforum (2015)
“From Ancient to Modern: Archeology and Aesthetics” at ISAW, Artforum (2015)
Fouad Elkoury at Galerie Tanit, Artforum (2015)
Price of Freedom: On Mohammad Ali Atassi and Ziad Homsi’s Our Terrible Country, Artforum (2015)
Taysir Batniji and Anna Boghiguian at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Artforum (2015)
Rasheed Araeen at the Sharjah Art Foundation, Artforum (2014)
Stan Douglas at David Zwirner, Artforum (2014)
Malerie Marder at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, Artforum (2014)
Etel Adnan at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Artforum (2014)
Children of the Revolution: On Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, Artforum (2013)
Charlene von Heyl at Petzel Gallery, Artforum (2013)
Eliot Porter at Paula Cooper Gallery, Artforum (2013)
Eric Baudelaire at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2013)
Huguette Caland at the Beirut Exhibition Center, Artforum (2013)
Cyprien Gaillard at MOMA PS1, Artforum (2013)
Bucharest Biennial 5, Artforum (2012)
Self Sufficient: On Simone Fattal’s Autoportrait, Artforum (2012)
Saloua Raouda Choucair at the Beirut Exhibition Center, Artforum (2012)
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin at Salt Beyoglu, Artforum (2011)
Mohamad-Saïd Baalbaki at Maqam Art Gallery, Artforum (2011)
Setareh Shahbazi at 98Weeks Project Space, Artforum (2011)
Sharjah Biennial 10, Artforum (2011)
Cengiz Çekil at Rampa, Artforum (2010)
Walid Sadek at the Beirut Art Center, Artforum (2010)
Haris Epaminonda at Rodeo, Artforum (2010)
Wael Shawky at Darat al Funun, Artforum (2010)
“A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow” at Contemporary Image Collective, Artforum (2009)
Tamara El Samereaie at Agial Art Gallery, Artforum (2009)
Mona Hatoum at Darat al Funun, Artforum (2009)
Walid Raad at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Artforum (2008)
Lamia Joreige at Kettaneh Building, Artforum (2008)
Oraib Toukan at Darat al Funun, Artforum (2007)
Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life, Artforum (2007)
Youssef Nabil at the Third Line, Artforum (2007)
Bidoun
“The Ungovernables,” New Museum Triennial, Bidoun (2012)
Ashkal Alwan’s Video Works 2011, Bidoun (2011)
Yto Barrada and Etel Adnan at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Bidoun (2010)
Maria Golia’s Photography and Egypt, Bidoun (2009–2010)
Bookforum
Artful Volumes: On Modernist Beirut, Bookforum (2024)
Practical Magic: Can Art Make a Difference in Assad’s Syria? Bookforum (2017)
Factional Narrative: On Elias Khoury’s Broken Mirrors: Sinalcol, Bookforum (2016)
The Big Comedown: On Robert’s Worth’s A Rage for Order, Bookforum (2016)
The Revolution Will Be Anthologized: On Souffles-Anfas, Bookforum (2016)
Lost Illusions: On Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Future, Bookforum (2015)
High Lines: On Svetlana Alpers’s Roof Life, Bookforum (2014)
Essays
On the Ground: Beirut After the Blast, Artforum (2020)
Remains of the Day: Artists Respond to the Arab Spring (Ten Years Later), Aperture (2020)
Shifting Ground: On Stories and Archives in the Work of Naeem Mohaiemen, Afterall (2019)
Katia Kameli: A Loose and Elliptical Dialogue, Camera Austria (2019)
Always Struggle with the Object, Always Rewrite the World, Documenta 14 / South (2017)
Omer Fast: War Stories, Parkett (2017)
Public/Private: The Many Lives of ‘Rebel Painter’ Inji Efflatoun, Afterall (2016)
Neverending Story: On Comics and Critique, Artforum (2015)
Lecture as Performance, Aperture (2015)
Wael Shawky: Lost and Found, Parkett (2014)
A Damaged Painting, A Shard of Glass: Discovering Saloua Raouda Choucair, Afterall (2013)
Eric Baudelaire: Narrative, Form, and Metaphor in The Anabases . . . , Camera Austria (2013)
On Site: Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program, Artforum (2012)
Curators Who Don’t Curate, Red Hook Journal (CCS Bard) (2012)
The Body on Stage and Screen: Rabih Mroué’s Photo Romance, Afterall (2010)
On the Politics of Art and Space in Beirut, Tate Papers (2009)
The War Works: Videos Under Siege, Online, and in the Aftermath, Again, Art Journal (2007)
Profiles & Features
Maximum Impact: The Art of Ouattara Watts, Artforum (2021)
Speaking Volumes: The Films of Moyra Davey, Artforum (2020)
Let the Record Show: The Art of Rayyane Tabet, Artforum (2020)
Today in History: The Art of Banu Cennetoğlu, Artforum (2019)
Distant Shores: The Art of Ahmed Morsi, Artforum (2018)
Openings: Jumana Manna, Artforum (2014)
Openings: Rayyane Tabet, Artforum (2013)
Openings: CAMP, Artforum (2010)
Openings: Akram Zaatari, Artforum (2010)
Work in Progress: Celine Condorelli’s The Egypt Project, Bidoun (2013)
Work in Progress: Iman Issa, Radical Subtraction, Bidoun (2012)
Profile: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnence’s Foreword to Guns for Banta, Bidoun (2011)
Work in Progress: Hrair Sarkissian, Dream Color, Bidoun (2010–2011)
Work in Progress: Mohamed Soueid, Beirut’s First Video Artist, Bidoun (2010)
Work in Progress: Sherif El-Azma’s The Psychogeography of Loose Associations, Bidoun (2009)
Work in Progress: Ziad Antar, Goal! Bidoun (2008)
Work in Progress: Tarek Zaki’s Monument X, Bidoun (2008)
Work in Progress: Rania Stephan’s The Three Disappearances of Souad Hosni, Bidoun (2008)
Work in Progress: Group Tuesday, Doubting Images, Bidoun (2007)
Profile: Walid Raad and the Atlas Group, Bidoun (2004)
Cityscape Beirut: Living with Ghosts, Flash Art (2004)
String Theories: Ghada Amer Stitches Feminine Themes into Masculine Abstract Art, Black Book (2000)
Public Enemy: Will Chris Ofili’s First Stateside Show Raise the Roof? Black Book (1999)
Journalism & Reportage
Lebanon Bans Tale of Fighters in Militias, The New York Times (2007)
Interviews
Culture in the Wake of the Kuwaiti Oil Boom, A Conversation with Farida Al Sultan (with Fatima Al Qadiri), Bidoun (2010)
Under the Volcano: Christine Tohme, Artforum (2006)
Obituaries
Etel Adnan (1925–2021), Artforum (2022)
Leila Alaoui (1982–2016), Artforum (2016)
Amal Kenawy (1974–2012), Artforum (2013)
Texts for Catalogues & Monographs
To Look Beyond the Sea: Painting, Music, and Motherhood in the Art of Mounira Al Solh, Mounira Al Solh: She Slept with a Soaked Bomb Between Her Hands (ABN AMRO, 2023)
Cultural Entanglements: On the Art of Jordan Nassar, Relations: Diaspora and Painting, edited by Cheryl Sim (Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, 2020)
Cosmopolis: On the Cities of Nicolas Moufarrege, Nicolas Moufarrege: Recognize My Sign, edited by Dean Daderko (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2019)
Abstracted: Land for Art in Lebanon, Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, edited by Suheyla Takesh and Lynn Gumpert (Grey Art Gallery, 2019)
Etel Adnan, Etel Adnan, edited by Sébastien Delot (Éditions Dilecta, 2018)
Memory Games: The Arab Image Foundation, On Photography in Lebanon: Stories & Essays, edited by Clémence Cottard Hachem and Nour Salamé (Kaph, 2018)
The Revolution Will Be Beautiful, Rasheed Araeen, edited by Nick Aikens (JRP Ringier, 2017)
When the Line Is Left to Live on Its Own, Huguette Caland: Everything Takes the Shape of a Person, 1970–1978, edited by Aram Moshayedi (Skira, 2017)
16 June 2017: Amar Kanwar, Documenta 14: Daybook, edited by Quinn Latimer and Adam Szymczyk (Prestel, 2017)
Mapped Out: To Think of Marwan Rechmaoui as a Landscape Painter, Marwan Rechmaoui: Metropolis (Kaph, 2017)
Skies Cloaked in Scattered Stars: Mapping the Worlds of Thuraya al-Baqsami, Lasting Impressions: Thuraya al-Baqsami (Sharjah Art Museum, 2017)
Here and There, Etel Adnan: The Weight of the World, edited by Rebecca Lewin and Melissa Larner (Serpentine Galleries, 2016)
Formalism, Feminism, Artevida, edited by Adriano Pedrosa and Rodrigo Moura (Rio de Janeiro State Cultural Secretariat, 2014)
Tough Love: Beauty and Brutality in the Multidimensional Work of Etel Adnan, Etel Adnan: In All Her Dimensions, edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, 2014)
Two Lovers in a Park at Midday: The Urban Imagination of Saloua Raouda Choucair, Saloua Raouda Choucair, edited by Jessica Morgan (Tate Modern, 2013)
Beirut, Art Cities of the Future: 21st-Century Avant-Gardes (Phaidon, 2013)
The Body on Stage and Screen, Rabih Mroué: A BAK Critical Reader in Artists’ Practice, edited by Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder (BAK, 2012)
Off the Map: Contemporary Art in the Middle East, The Future of Tradition-The Tradition of Future, edited Chris Dercon, Avinoam Shalem, and León Krempel (Prestel, 2010)
On Resistance and Retirement: The Still, Silent Lives of Former Fighters in Nature Morte, Akram Zaatari: Earth of Endless Secrets, edited by Karl Bassil and Akram Zaatari (Portikus, 2010)
Adventures in Experimental Music, Untitled Tracks: On Alternative Music in Beirut, edited by Ziad Nawfal and Ghalya Saadawi (Amers Editions, 2010)
Contemporary Art Practices in Postwar Lebanon: An Introduction, and Onto the Streets: The Heartland Collective’s Interventionist Perspective, Out of Beirut, edited by Suzanne Cotter (Modern Art Oxford, 2006)