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1. MEISEA_231212_001_STITCH.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_MEI_Sea_Of_Life Middle East Institute -- Exhibit: The Sea of Life: Modern and Contemporary Art from The Kingdom of Bahrain (53 photos from 2023)
2. MEISEA_231212_009.JPG: The Sea of Life ME Modern and Contemporary Art from The Kingdom of Bahrain Co-curated by Hayfa Aljishi and Lyne Sneige November 29, 2023-March 26, 2024 The Sea of Life features the works of fourteen artists spanning different art forms and generations, exploring their connection to their natural and built environment, and the symbolism of water in their lives. The title plays on the concept of 'The Tree of Life,' a widespread symbol of life among some cultures and religions. On Bahrain Island, water has been this lifeforce. Both the sea and the island's freshwater springs are linked to its prosperity and regarded as a precious commodity to cherish and preserve, creating a powerful connection between the people of Bahrain and their natural environment. Home to the Dilmun civilization dating as far back as the fourth millennium BC, Bahrain Island was described in the Epic of Gilgamesh as a heavenly land and a place of everlasting youth. The artists' deep connection to the island's landscape, its natural resources, rituals and mythology are reflected in the artworks included in the show. It is this connection to ancient civilizations and culture that has inspired the island's strong art scene and its grassroots nature. In The Sea of Life, the 30 featured works play on dualities such as past and future, tradition and modernity, folktale, and reality. They offer a glimpse into the legacy of Bahrain's pioneering artists, the evolving arts scene, and the manner in which younger generations are exploring new artistic expressions. Collectively, their creations convey a visual portrayal of the island, its landscape, and its potential as a source of reflection, connection, and the imagining of diverse futures. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Rashid Al Khalifa, Marwa Al Khalifa, Mohammed Al Mahdi, Mariam AlNoaimi, Jaafar Al Oraibi, Abdul Karim Al-Orrayed, Mashael Alsaie, Jamal AlYousif, Nasser AlYousif, Ebrahim Bu Saad, Balqees Fakhro, Aysha Hafuz, Ghada Khunji, Abbas Yousif
3. MEISEA_231212_017.JPG: EBRAHIM BU SAAD b. 1954, Muharraq, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain The Lovers, 1999
4. MEISEA_231212_030.JPG: BALQEES FAKHRO b. 1950, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Untitled, 2008
5. MEISEA_231212_039.JPG: MOHAMMED AL MAHDI b. 1967, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Dreams of Freedom, 2015
6. MEISEA_231212_049.JPG: GHADA KHUNJI b. 1967, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain FaRIDA X, 2019
7. MEISEA_231212_062.JPG: RASHID AL KHALIFA b. 1952, Riffa, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Waves V, 2023
8. MEISEA_231212_083.JPG: RASHID AL KHALIFA b. 1952, Riffa, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Standing Mobile, 2022
9. MEISEA_231212_103.JPG: JAMAL ALYOUSIF b. 1963, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Protection, 2023
10. MEISEA_231212_124.JPG: MARWA AL KHALIFA b. 1974, Muharraq, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Yellow & Blue, 2015
11. MEISEA_231212_136.JPG: JAMAL ALYOUSIF b. 1963, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Faces, 2018
12. MEISEA_231212_156.JPG: MARIAM ALNOAIMI b. 1990, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Shifting Waters, 2021
13. MEISEA_231212_183.JPG: AYSHA HAFUZ b. 1963, Muharraq, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain The Dilmunian Family, 2021
14. MEISEA_231212_207.JPG: ABBAS YOUSIF b. 1960, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain I was founded in blue, 2015
15. MEISEA_231212_225.JPG: MASHAEL ALSAIE b. 1994, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works between Bahrain and New York City Adhari Mythopoeia X, 2023 Adhari Mythopoeia XI, 2023
16. MEISEA_231212_236.JPG: MASHAEL ALSAIE b. 1994, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works between Bahrain and New York City Submerged I, 2023
17. MEISEA_231212_241.JPG: JAAFAR AL ORAIBI b. 1976, Manama, Bahrain; lives and works in Bahrain Untitled Topography 2023 - The Salt Lake, 2023 51 x 66 in. Pencil, charcoal, salt on Arches Paper 450 gm Courtesy of the artist Untitled Topography 2023 - The Salt Lake 1, 2023 Untitled Topography 2023 - The Salt Lake 2, 2023 Untitled Topography 2023 - The Salt Lake 3, 2023 Untitled Topography 2023 - The Salt Lake 4, 2023
18. MEISEA_231212_275.JPG: ABDUL KARIM AL-ORRAYED b. 1934, Bahrain; lives in Bahrain Untitled, 2009
19. MEISEA_231212_280.JPG: NASSER ALYOUSIF (1940-2006), b. in Muharraq, Bahrain; lived and worked in Bahrain Roots, 1972 Personalities from the Neighborhood, 1998 Longing Songs, 1996
20. MEIRIV_230804_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_MEI_River Middle East Institute -- Exhibit: A River Flows Downstream (52 photos from 2023)
  A River Flows Downstream CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST ON WATER, RIVERS AND THE SHIFTING ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE Curated by Ro� Saade | June 14-October 13, 2023 A River Flows Downstream explores the concept of a journey along the river into the disparate world of ecosystems in different space and time. While drifting downstream through the various works on display, the viewer is invited by each of the 8 participating artists into their lived world to witness the shifting ecological and cultural landscapes that they inhabit. Through the lens of each artist, the photography exhibition narrates the diversity and complexity of these ever-changing landscapes interconnected by their reliance on the abundance of water. As humankind seeks to comprehend the scale of its activities, their impact on the environment, and how environmental changes in turn influence the viability of societies, it must acknowledge the interdependence between the natural world and humanity and how crucial this relationship is to the future of both worlds. As much as we attempt to steer the navigation of our ships, it is ultimately the flow of the river, its twists and turns that guide us downstream and into an unknown future. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Hoda Afshar (Iran) | Speak the Wind The influence of winds on the Strait of Hormuz and its inhabitants Zied Ben Romdhane (Tunisia) | Phosphate The hostile landscape produced by phosphate manufacturing in Tunis Solmaz Daryani (Iran) | The Eyes of the Earth The environmental degradation of Lake Urmia, Iran Reem Falaknaz (U.A.E.) | The Tolerance of One Million Trees Desert afforestation in Dubai; tree farming and artificial lakes Paul Gorra (Lebanon) | Beirut River Urbanization and waste mismanagement of the Beirut River Emin �zman (Turkey) | Farewell Rising water caused by building dams in southeast Turkey Roi Saade/Tamara Abdul Hadi (Lebanon/Iraq) | Chorography of the Euphrates Contemporary portraiture of the Euphrates River and its inhabitants This exhibition was made possible thanks to the generous support of Anne B. Keiser
21. MEIRIV_230804_021.JPG: Ro� Saade is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the intersectionality between graphic design, photography, and the arts. Saade is interested in finding and creating ways to resist systems of domination and inequality. As a photographer, Saade's work attempts to investigate individual and collective identity through the documentation of social and personal encounters. Tamara Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi photographer whose work is concerned with the historic and contemporary representation of her own culture, in its diversity. Along with being a photographer, Abdul Hadi is an educator who has taught in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Kuwait, Tunisia and Canada. This series Chorography of the Euphrates, is an intimate investigation of a river through its communities, and socio-cultural landscape. Through a journey along the river, Abdul Hadi and Saade build an environmental narrative of a contemporary landscape, bringing this river from its place in history to a place in the present. It is an ambitious attempt to map the entirety of the Euphrates in Iraq. The project weaves together visuals ranging from farmland, village elders, boat makers, buffalo herders, and tribal leaders, all in some way or another affected by the ever present threat of drought. Each image is titled after the exact coordinates of the location where they were photographed along the river, recreating the route traveled by the artists. Saade is currently a research associate at Access in the Making Research Lab at Concordia University, Montreal. His photography work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Canada, Jordan, Lebanon and New York. Abdul Hadi is a photographer and an educator who has taught in Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, the UAE, Kuwait, Tunisia and Canada. Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide. Abdul Hadi's debut monograph, Picture an Arab Man, was published in 2022.
22. MEIRIV_230804_031.JPG: Emin �zmen's work is focused on documenting human rights violations in his home country of Turkey and around the world. He aims to bring attention to the suffering of those who are victims of civil unrest and social injustice. In his series, Farewell, �zmen captures the scope and consequences of a major irrigation and hydraulic energy project, the Southeastern Anatolia Project, known as the "GAP" project (the G�neydoğu Anadolu Projesi). It consists of developing 22 dams in the southern Anatolian region in Turkey which severely impact several cities, villages, and archaeological sites, by drowning entire civilizations and displacing communities from their historic cities now submerged in water. Over the years, �zmen has documented the slow rise of the waters and people's farewell to their villages and memories so that they will not be forgotten. One city, Hasankeyf, famed for its beauty and rich heritage dating back to the Assyrian, Roman, and Ottoman civilizations is now lost underwater, symbolizing the tragic impact of the project. The GAP project, originally aimed at the development of a poor and underdeveloped region, is highly controversial in both its implementation as well as the less explicit motivations of the Turkish government to integrate a vast Kurdish majority territory. �zmen has participated in numerous exhibitions to include, A Journey through Contexted Lands (2019) at the World Affairs Auditorium in San Francisco and the Open for Business - Magnum photographers group exhibition (2020-2021) with the Deutsche B�rse Photography Foundation in Germany. �zmen has won several awards, among them two World Press Photo awards and Public Prize of The Bayeux Calvados awards for war correspondents. He was a member of the jury of 2016 and 2018 World Press Photo Multimedia contests.
23. MEIRIV_230804_057.JPG: Zied Ben Romdhane is a Tunisian documentary photographer and photojournalist who started out as a commercial photographer. Ben Romdhane's work is a vivid portrayal of life, illustrating pain, laughter, and hardship. He mixes multiple genres of photography to tell a more complete story-one where the subjects are not victims, but people who are seeking agency to control their destiny and future. The PHOSPHATE series portrays the living conditions in and around the phosphate mines in the southwest of Tunisia which account for a significant portion of Tunisia's export income making up almost 4 percent of the country's GDP. The local mining villages of Redayef, Mettlaoui, and Oumm Laarayes are rich in resources but marginalized by the government. They remain poor and polluted, a conduit for wealth and for coastal towns to prosper. Ben Romdhane's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, such as the Biennale of the photographs of the contemporary Arab world (France, Paris 2017) and Afrotopia African biennale of photography (Bamako, Mali 2017) to name a few. He has also been featured in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Prizes and awards include selection for the Prize 6X6 Global Talent Program 2018 with World Press Photo Foundation. Ben Romdhane joined Magnum Foundation as a nominee in 2019. Magnum is a non-profit, photographic foundation with a mission to expand diversity and creativity in documentary photography.
24. MEIRIV_230804_086.JPG: Solmaz Daryani is an Iranian documentary photographer currently based in both Iran and the UK. Her work focuses on exploring the themes of climate change and the water crisis, with a keen interest in exploring human relationships with the environment, communities, and cultures. In her series The Eyes Of Earth, Daryani reflects on her childhood summers spent on Lake Urmia's shore in northwestern Iran. The environmental degradation of the world's once second largest salt lake began around 50 years ago during the Shah's government, and continued aggressively after the revolution. Since 1972, Lake Urmia has lost 88% of its area and 80% of its volume due to a combination of rising temperatures, reduced rainfall, dam-building and over-farming. This has resulted in severe environmental degradation, rendering the soil infertile, ruining local tourism and agriculture, and forcing young people to flee the area. Efforts are being made to save the lake with collaborations between Iranian government ministries, the Urmia Lake Restoration Program, and UNDP. Daryani is a grantee of the Magnum Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Her works have been featured in various exhibitions globally such as Cortona on The Move Culture Makers for a Climate-Just Future (2022) in Paris, France and in Photoville's Artists to Watch (2020) in Brooklyn, New York. In 2021 Daryani won the Royal Photography Society Science Photographer of the Year in the UK. Daryani's ongoing project, The Eyes of Earth, has received multiple accolades, including the 2015 London Magnum Photos Grant, the 2020 Alexandra Boulat scholarship, the 2018 PhotogrAphy Grant, and the 2021 FotoEvidence Book Award.
25. MEIRIV_230804_096.JPG: Hoda Afshar is an Iranian artist based in Naarm, Australia (Naarm is the Indigenous. name for Melbourne native to the Aboriginal Communities from the territory). She works across photography and moving-image, with a focus on the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. Informed by her own experience with migration and cultural displacement, Afshar's work disrupts traditional image-making practices, plays with the presentation of imagery, and merges aspects of conceptual, staged, and documentary photography. On the islands of the Strait of Hormuz off the southern coast of Iran, a distinctive local culture has emerged as the result of many centuries of cultural and economic exchange. Central to its beliefs is that the island's powerful winds may possess a person, making them ill or fall prey to disease. In response, the island's inhabitants engage in a ritual practice involving incense, music and movement in which a cult leader addresses the wind to negotiate its exit from the soul. For both locals and visitors, these beliefs correspond with the surreal landscape of the islands-a landscape of strange valleys and statue-like mountains that have been slowly carved by wind over many millennia. Afshar's project, Speak the Wind, documents the history of these winds and the visible traces they have left on these islands and their inhabitants-a visible record of the invisible seen through the eye of the imagination. Afshar's work has been widely exhibited both locally and internationally; some of her exhibitions include the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023), Sharjah, U.A.E, When the Wind Blows (2022) at the Kunst Haus Museum in Vienna, Austria. Her works are also part of numerous private and public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the National Gallery of Victoria. Amongst her many art awards: Australia's National Photographic Portrait Prize (2015) and the People's Choice award of the Ramsay Art Prize (2021) with the Art Gallery of South Australia.
26. MEIRIV_230804_117.JPG: Paul Gorra is a Lebanese photographer based in Beirut. Gorra grew up in the mountains of Keserwan in Lebanon and went on to study photography at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA). His photographic practice is a field survey of Lebanon's ever-changing vernacular landscapes, exploring the relationship between environment and identity. Beirut River is a series of photographs taken during strolls along the Beirut River between 2020 and 2023. Transformed into a concrete canal in 1968, the river was disconnected from its natural ecosystem and from the communities that used to live along its banks. Effectively a no man's land and an open-air sewer, this fragmented territory reflects Lebanon's social and political order, bearing witness to the many crises this country has been facing. Gorra teaches photography at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and researches photographic histories at the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation. Gorra is part of a collective of Lebanese photographers, Collectif 1200, that exhibited in Bordeaux in October 2021 and in Madrid in June 2022 at Casa Arabe. In 2019, he took part in Au bord du monde vivent nos vertiges, a collective exhibition in France highlighting the Lebanese photographic scene, curated by Laure d'Hauteville and Cl�mence Cottard Hachem.
27. MEIRIV_230804_131.JPG: Reem Falaknaz is a photographer and filmmaker based between Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Her work documents the social, cultural, and physical landscape of the UAE and the transient nature of its residents. Through capturing video, audio, and still images, she engages in endless conversations with her subjects, explores her surroundings and attempts to communicate the stories she collects. This project explores the afforestation initiative, One Million Trees, aiming to make the city of Dubai one of the most sustainable and livable in the world. Thousands of native trees have been planted around a number of artificial lakes, including the Emperor's lake, Crescent Moon lake, Stingray lake, and the Love lake, since the project's inception, and half a million additional trees have been planted around the city. These trees will receive a steady supply of treated wastewater and desalinated seawater. In the harshest of environments, the hope is that the desert will remain out of reach from the city's urban sprawl, and that time and care will allow the trees to effectively become a carbon sink and achieve the dream of a fertile land. In 2014, Falaknaz took part in the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) that is funded by the Arab Fund for Art and Culture, The Prince Claus Fund, and Magnum Foundation. The ADPP is an initiative that provides support and mentorship to photographers from across the Arab region. Her commissions have been featured in the UAE's National Pavilion at the 2016 and 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, as well as at the Lahore Biennale 2020, and Expo 2020.
28. ATALIB_230417_005.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_American_Taliban_230417 Middle East Institute -- Event: PBS FRONTLINE America and the Taliban" w/Martin Smith, Iulia-Sabina Joja (30 photos from 2023)
29. ATALIB_230417_043.JPG: Kate Seelye Senior Vice President, Middle East Institute
30. ATALIB_230417_064.JPG: Marcela Gaviria
31. ATALIB_230417_081.JPG: Martin Smith
32. ATALIB_230417_090.JPG: Martin Smith, Iulia-Sabina Joja
33. ATALIB_230417_097.JPG: Iulia-Sabina Joja
34. MEIPER_230417_002.JPG: Ali Kazim Untitled, Ratti Tibbi Series, 2017-2018
35. MEIPER_230417_043.JPG: Moza Almatrooshi The Agriculture School: Maktoom's Honey Mountain, 2022
36. MEIPER_230417_062.JPG: Nadia Bseiso Infertile Crescent Series, 2016-on-going
37. MEIPER_230417_071.JPG: Mohamed Mahdy Moon Dust Project, 2016-2020
38. MEIPER_230417_088.JPG: Maintain alignment between the internal self and the external environment. Adjust the daily as needed -- Changes in the environment that go unnoticed create continuity. We live diagonally.
39. MEIPER_230417_098.JPG: Sarah Abu Abdallah Fortitude, 2020
40. MEI_230417_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_MEI DC -- Dupont Circle -- Middle East Institute (1763 N Street NW) (17 photos from 2023)
41. MEI_230417_23.JPG: Empty Quarter, 1958 Colbert Held Archive
42. MEI_230417_29.JPG: Connecting the people of the United States and the Middle East through policy, education, and the arts. MEI: The Integrated Think Tank.
43. MEI_230417_58.JPG: They have a cat who scouts the neighborhood during the day and returns at night.
44. MEIPER_230323_001.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2023_DC_MEI_Perceptible Middle East Institute -- Exhibit: Perceptible Rhythms/Alternative Temporalities (73 photos from 2023)
45. MEIPER_230323_005.JPG: Current Exhibition Perceptible Rhythms/Alternative Temporalities On view through April 28, 2023
46. MEIPER_230323_007.JPG: Abdulnasser Gharem Climate Refugee, 2022
47. MEIPER_230323_031.JPG: Perceptible Rhythms/ Alternative Temporalities
48. MEIPER_230323_037.JPG: Moza Almatrooshi The Agriculture School: Maktoom's Honey Mountain, 2022
49. MEIPER_230323_049.JPG: Maha Nasrallah Re-bounce: a personal diary in exile 2022
50. MEIPER_230323_073.JPG: Filwa Nazer In the Fold, 2019
51. MEIPER_230323_090.JPG: Sarah Almehairi Adjustment of the Daily, 2022
52. MEIPER_230323_095.JPG: Maintain alignment between the internal self and the external environment. Adjust the daily as needed -- Changes in the environment that go unnoticed create continuity. We live diagonally.
53. MEIPER_230323_112.JPG: Sarah Abu Abdallah Fortitude, 2020
54. MEIPER_230323_123.JPG: Christian Sleiman Untitled (stories around trees), 2022
55. MEIPER_230323_140.JPG: Marianne Fahmy Disappearing Land, 2022
56. MEIPER_230323_147.JPG: Ali Kazim Untitled, Ratti Tibbi Series, 2017-2018
57. MEIPER_230323_172.JPG: Nadia Bseiso Infertile Crescent Series, 2016-on-going
58. MEISPK_191211_003.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_MEI_Speaking Middle East Institute -- Exhibit: Speaking Across Mountains: Kurdish Artists in Dialogue (24 photos from 2019)
  Speaking Across Mountains Kurdish Artists in Dialogue Curated by Heba Elkayal December 6 - February 20, 2020
59. MEISPK_191211_007.JPG: Khadija Baker Coffin Nest, 2007
60. MEISPK_191211_013.JPG: Kani Kamil My Mother's Dream Secret, 2013
61. MEISPK_191211_022.JPG: Zehra Dogan Yasak (Prohibition), 2019
62. MEISPK_191211_026.JPG: Hayv Kahraman Matroshika II, 2007
63. MEISPK_191211_033.JPG: Bahram Hajou Disappointment/Failure, 2009
64. MEISPK_191211_037.JPG: Serwan Baran Domino Effect, 2019
65. MEISPK_191211_045.JPG: Kani Kamil Blue Blanket, 2018
66. MEISPK_191211_056.JPG: Walid Siti Precious Stones Series, 2000
67. MEISPK_191211_071.JPG: Walid Siti A Poem to the Mountain at the Edge of the World, 2019
68. MEISPK_191211_075.JPG: Sener Ozmen All Names, 2019
69. MEISPK_191211_080.JPG: Zehra Dogan Jails in My Eyes, 2018
70. MEISPK_191211_092.JPG: Sherko Abbas The Phantom Museum, 2019
71. MEISPK_191211_102.JPG: Serwan Baran Blinded Soldiers, 2019
72. MEISPK_191211_105.JPG: Serwan Baran Female Kurdish Fighters, 2019
73. MEI_191211_01.JPG: The following pictures are from the page 2019_DC_MEI DC -- Dupont Circle -- Middle East Institute (1763 N Street NW) (12 photos from 2019)
  Connecting the people of the United States and the Middle East through policy, education, and the arts. MEI: The Integrated Think Tank.
74. MEI_191211_04.JPG: Middle East Institute Inspiring Dialogue. Empowering Change.
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