Publications

Bait Al Hurma: Stories of Parallel Worlds and Mysterious Secrets celebrates a Sharjah Art Foundation venue in the vibrant neighbourhood of Al Mureijah through five mythical women-centric stories.

The man who runs for the world is the Arabic edition of an augmented reality story inspired by Ahmet H. Uysal, an athlete who runs marathons around the world to support children’s charities.

State of Cinema is a translation project by Bakhita Al Ameri, a translator and writer from Al Ain, UAE, who was the recipient of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual publishing grant (2021).

Landwalks: Across Palestine and South Africa is an ongoing creative research collaboration between the Palestinian Museum and the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town, which was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

‘(Fine) Arts Dissertation Series’ looks at the dissertations submitted by artists as part of their master's study at the Faculty of Fine Arts, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

How to Not Build a Nation is an eight-part experimental and research-oriented zine publication from artists and collaborators across south and southeast Asia on the ways in which nation states reproduce colonial and pre-colonial violences, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021).

Corniche 4 expanded upon the previous editions by including new talent and voices through a UAE-focused open call. It brings together projects by 34 artists and illustrators from the UAE, who share techniques, themes, books, stories, drawings and experiences that culminate in a comic anthology.

The Flying Saucer: Experimental Texts in Science Fiction Literature celebrates The Flying Saucer building in Dasman and its symbolic value through 11 mythical stories around the science fiction genre.

Inji Efflatoun and the Mexican Muralists: Imaging Women and Work between Egypt and Mexico traces Efflatoun’s relationship with key figures in the Mexican mural movement, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant in 2020.

Widen the Circle: An Obscure Experimentation in North African Avant-Garde Cinema traces the colonial history present in North African cinema through three films, and was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant in 2020.

चित्रगोष्ट: Art Writings in Marathi (1930s–1960s) is as an initiative of हाकारा । hākārā, a peer-reviewed bilingual journal of creative expression that was the recipient of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Publishing Grant in 2020.

Originally commissioned, published and produced for Sharjah Biennial 9, this book contains two years of port records related to the Somali trade from the Sharjah creek, from where a large number of dhows leave for Somalia.

The third iteration of Corniche brings together projects by 34 artists and illustrators from the UAE, who share techniques, themes, books, stories, drawings and experiences that culminate in a comic anthology.

Originally commissioned, published and produced for Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009), Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict is a collaborative publication and exhibition project by Rasha Salti and Ziad Antar.

Corniche 2 is the second in the series of a comic anthology that brings together projects by 23 artists and illustrators based in the UAE to pay tribute to the Sharjah Corniche.