1st Edition
Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council
1. Introduction: Art and Cultural Production in the GCC Suzi Mirgani 2. Authenticating an Emirati Art World: Claims of Tabula Rasa and Cultural Appropriation in the UAE Elizabeth Derderian 3. Of “Gray Lists” and Whitewash: An Aesthetics of (Self-)Censorship and Circumvention in the GCC Countries Nancy Demerdash 4. Utopian Ideals, Unknowable Futures, and the Art Museum in the Arabian Peninsula Karen Exell 5. Contemporary Art and Global Identity in the Arabian Peninsula and Azerbaijan Lesley Gray 6. Reflections on Public Art in the Arabian Peninsula Nadia Mounajjed 7. Contemporary Art and Migrant Identity “Construction” in the UAE and Qatar Sarina Wakefield
Biography
Suzi Mirgani is Managing Editor at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University in Qatar. She is author of Target Markets: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall (2017); and co-editor of Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings (with Mohamed Zayani, 2016); and Food Security in the Middle East (with Zahra Babar, 2014). Mirgani is an independent filmmaker highlighting stories from Qatar.
