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Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa. It provides critical contexts for a discussion that has become increasingly urgent in recent years—the role of culture in a time of conflict and globalization—and critiques the historical state of cultural institutions in an age of political upheaval, social unrest, exuberant cultural activity, ascendant neoliberal forms of privatization, social activism, and regional uncertainty. Future Imperfect draws attention to the ongoing demands and antagonisms that have affected cultural production across the region, in both historical and recent post-revolutionary contexts. In doing so, the book offers an in-depth discussion of how cultural producers have developed alternative institutional models to negotiate the constraints placed on their practices. How cultural institutions operate within the conditions of a global cultural economy, and alongside the often conflicting demands they place on cultural production in the region, is likewise an overarching point of reference throughout this volume. While the politics of contemporary cultural production and institutional practices in the Middle East can tell us a great deal about local and regional concerns, one of the cornerstone ambitions of this volume is to inquire into what they can also impart about the politics of global cultural production. This involves exploring the multiple ways in which contemporary art practices are being reduced, willingly or otherwise, to the logic of global capital. What is needed in terms of infrastructure for cultural production today and how can we speculatively propose new infrastructures and institutions in the context of current realities?

The Art of the Possible takes a hard look at the present play of forces in the Middle East. In full awareness of the historical, political, social, and psychological dimensions of the enmities of the region-and its most critical flashpoint, the Arab- Israeli conflict-it seeks realistic answers to the question ""What can be done?"" For each of the immediate foci of conflict, the author develops and proposes a workable plan: for the Sinai Peninsula, the establishment of a Sinai Development Trust; for the West Bank of the Jordan River, the creation of a Palestinian state; for the Golan Heights,

Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa. It offers critical contexts for a discussion that has become increasingly urgent in recent years - the role of culture in a time of conflict and globalization - and an in-depth critique of the historical state of cultural institutions in an age of political upheaval, social unrest, exuberant cultural activity, ascendant neoliberal forms of privatization, social activism, and regional uncertainty. Based on collective input from numerous contributors and interlocutors, this volume brings together internationally renowned academics, critics, activists, filmmakers, artists, and other independent cultural practitioners to consider how new infrastructures and institutions can effectively emerge within such fraught and dynamic contexts

The increasingly complex, algorithmically mediated operations of global capital have only deepened the gap between the social order as a whole and its lived experience. Yet, Fredric Jameson's notion of cognitive mapping, attentive to the conflicting tendencies of capitalist operations, is still helpful for addressing the local instantiations of capital's expanding frontiers of extraction. I am interested in tracing the historicity of those operations as well as the totality they are actively part of in the present from the vantage point of the Middle East, especially along with the entangled trajectories of oil, finance, and militarism. To this end, I examine countervisual practices in the realm of media arts that contest the aesthetic regime through which the state-capital nexus attempts to legitimize its imperial logic and violence. My reconfiguration of cognitive mapping as countervisuality in Nicholas Mirzoeff's terms demonstrates that there is no privileged position or method of cognitive mapping, which ultimately corresponds to an active negotiation of urban space across the Global North/ South divide.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Assessing U.S. Policy Priorities in the Middle East( -- Statement of Ms. Catalano Ewers, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Middle East Security Program, Center for a New American Security -- Prepared Statement by Elisa Catalano Ewers, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Sub-Committee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, Hearing on Assessing U.S. P... -- What the United States Contends with Today in the Middle East -- Why Does It Matter Anyway? -- Where Is U.S. Policy Today? -- Recommendations for Where Policy and Congress Could Go -- Statement of Mr. Benaim, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress -- Prepared Testimony Daniel Benaim, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee, on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, "Assessing U.S. Policy Priorities in the Middle East," April 3, 2019 -- Regional Trends -- Iraq and Eastern Syria: Mission Incomplete -- Regional Partnerships: Reassurance and Responsibility -- Iran: Choices Ahead -- Investing in Diplomacy and Development Tools and Championing Human Rights -- Policy Recommendations -- Statement of Ms. Pletka, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute -- House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and International Terrorism, on Assessing US Policy Priorities in the Middle East, Danielle Pletka, Senior Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy, April 3, 2019 -- What Should Our Policies Be? -- Appendix. Subcommittee Hearing Notice, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515-6128 -- Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Sacred Scripture 31. - Literature 63. - Music and Performance 91. - Politics, Conflict and War 129. - History and Identity 183. - Portraiture and the Body 267. - Nature and the Land 313