{"title":"Recently added","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"daftar-beginnings-afikra","title":"Daftar, Beginnings – Afikra","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eThe first print edition of Daftar, the online media edited by Afikra, a platform focused on the history, debates, and cultures of the Arab world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003eCelebrating 11 years of fostering global curiosity and understanding about the Arab world, afikra has sent its first book, Daftar: Beginnings, to print. Co-published with Kaph Books, the book is the inaugural print edition of Daftar, which began as a journal and developed into a quarterly online platform featuring essays and interviews on the region's histories and cultures.\u003cbr\u003eThis physical publication mirrors afikra's mission: to cultivate curiosity and build community through shared learning. Named after the Arabic word for notebook, \"daftar,\" the book is intended as a space for reflection, ideas, and marginalia—a humble but essential artifact to spark discourse.\u003cbr\u003eTitled \"Beginnings,\" the edition marks a starting point and a return, symbolizing the act of reclaiming authorship over the Arab narrative—a history often scattered, erased, or narrated by others. The issue features diverse voices exploring what \"beginnings\" mean across various disciplines and contexts, including art, architecture, heritage, design, and poetry.\u003cbr\u003eContributors like Alia Yunis, Idriss Jebari, and Khalid Albaih examine foundations and memory. Leading thinkers such as Alia Al-Senussi, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, and Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi challenge assumptions about cultural continuity. Experts were invited to cover cinema (Brahim \"Snoopy\" Ahmed), poetry (Rabab Chamseldine), urban art (Mahmoud Talaat, Farida Youssef), architectural reimagining (Ali Karimi), history through photography (Teymur Faris), culinary heritage (Jade George and Rafram Chaddad), and urban history (Nadi Abusaada and Ziad Jamaleddine).\u003cbr\u003eDesigned as a chorus of voices rather than a singular story, Daftar: Beginnings is an invitation for readers to engage in the collective, creative act of remembering, reframing, and reimagining the Arab world. Beginnings, in this context, are acts of reflection, return, and reclamation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\nPublished February 2026\u003cbr\u003eKaph Books\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish edition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e16 x 23 cm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e168 pages (132 ill.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-614-8065-08-8\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Les Presses du Réel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52080384311616,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/3663\/8272\/files\/Daftar.png?v=1780347131"},{"product_id":"the-generals-stork-research-practice-02-heba-y-amin","title":"The General's Stork – Research\/Practice 02 – Heba Y. 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Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, this volume will explore the extensive research that comprised the development of this multi-dimensional and developing work. It will also give further background as to how, in 2013, the Egyptian authorities sought to detain a migratory stork that it accused of being an international spy.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"note\"\u003eEdited by Anthony Downey, “Research\/Practice” focuses on artistic research and how it contributes to the formation of experimental knowledge systems. Drawing on preliminary material such as diaries, notebooks, audiovisual content, digital and social media, informal communications, and abandoned drafts, the series examines the interdisciplinary research methods that artists employ in their practices. Each volume endeavors to ask: In their often speculative and yet purposeful approach to generating research, what forms of knowledge do artists produce?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eHeba Y. Amin (born 1980 in Cairo, lives and works in Berlin) is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, the curator of visual art for the \u003cem\u003eMIZNA\u003c\/em\u003e journal, and one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series \u003cem\u003eHomeland \u003c\/em\u003ewhich received worldwide media attention. Amin has had recent exhibitions at the 10th Berlin Biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennale, MAXXI Rome, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Kalmar Art Museum Sweden, La Villette Paris, FACT Liverpool, Kunsthalle Wien, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Berlin Berlinale 9th Forum Expanded Exhibition, and the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003epublished in January 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish edition\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\"\u003e12 × 18 cm (softcover)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"descrListe\" itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e100 pages (color \u0026amp; b\/w ill.)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"separationTitre\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-3-95679-478-0\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Les Presses du Réel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52080412721472,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/3663\/8272\/files\/HebaY.AMin.png?v=1780348252"},{"product_id":"how-to-live-from-fire-to-fire-olivier-marboeuf","title":"How to live from fire to fire – Olivier Marboeuf","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003eOlivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accroche\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"citation\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eHow to Live from Fire to Fire\u003c\/em\u003e brings together two closely linked texts by Olivier Marboeuf. The volume opens with Marboeuf's latest work, \u003cem\u003eHow to Live from Fire to Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, written as a new commission, and is followed by the first English translation of his earlier text \u003cem\u003eThe Night Just Before the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in French in 2025 by Atlantiques déchaînés.\u003cbr\u003eWritten as if in the same breath, the two texts follow one another in a fevered, relentless movement. In \u003cem\u003eThe Night Just Before the Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, Marboeuf reworks Bernard-Marie Koltès's play \u003cem\u003eLa Nuit juste avant les forêts\u003c\/em\u003e (Éditions de Minuit, 1977), transforming it into the delirious, unbroken monologue of a man with dark blue skin calling out to another man in the streets of a major European city. Through this act of rewriting, the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections. 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Or I remember in detail the circumstances of my death, again and again, whereas perhaps the only benefit to death, whether we go to heaven or hell or nonexistence, is that we are no longer preoccupied with it. Until then, what I sometimes want when I go to bed and remember my day is to suddenly discover it was nothing but a dream. I'd think about how I'd like to write it, and then open my eyes again to the world and to other dreams. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"note\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"bioAuteur\"\u003eAmr Ezzat (born 1980 in Imbaba) is an Egyptian writer who studied engineering and philosophy. 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