
The Book of North African Literature
Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.
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Orlando Reade is a Ph.D. student in English at Princeton University.

Pierre Joris and Habib Tengou edit a book about the multiple beginnings, traditions and genealogies in the literatures of the many languages of the region, and the region's diasporas.

The theater, built by the military and finished in time for FESTAC in 1977, has always been a site of public disagreement.

The Thai-born artist, Pratchaya Phinthong, mines Zambia's colonial history to explore how historical narratives are performed through objects.

The merits of restaging 'Une Saison au Congo,' Aimé Césaire's history of the life and death of Patrice Lumumba, in London, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor.

An interview with the American-Nigerian-Jamaican artist Temitayo Ogunbiyi.

An interview with Ivorian artist Aboudia. Jean-Michel Basquiat is often cited as an influence in his work, but local experience is a bigger muse.

An interview with Soraya Morayef, who is documenting the graffiti scene in Cairo, Beirut, Libya and Palestine.

What did the Italian photographer, Gabriele Galimberti think he was going to achieve with his photo-series of children with their toys from around the world posing for him?
A couple of weeks ago Hamid Dabashi’s article “Can Non-Europeans Think?” was making the usual hype motions on

An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”
In Africa “biennials are a difficult idea, conceptually as well as financially, to implement and sustain,”
Last week, as he made a bid to become Egypt’s latest dictator, plunging the country into

Rachid Khimoune grew up in a small mining town in Northern France where his Algerian parents
In Egypt earlier this year I was taken by my host to a nightclub in downtown

The artist Hassan Hajjaj frames his portraits of ordinary Moroccans with a neat shelf crammed with 7 Up and Coca-Cola cans, symbols of a burgeoning import market and aspiration.

A recent trip to Israel and the new sub-set work he produced there, raises some doubts about Kehinde Wiley's art practice.

Kaleidoscope magazine has done an "Africa" issue; it wants to walk a fine line between identity politics and universalism.

The London Olympics, the Africa Utopia symosium and London's "Festival of the World with Mastercard."

Antoinette Engel, a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Cape Town (and a friend of this

Mary Beth Meehan, an American photographer in the U.S. northeast photographs marginal people: immigrants and poor people, both black and white.