Following are the links to the pdf versions of the powerpoint courses. Unfortunately, video and other hyperlinks were not copied into the pdfs.
Introduction to the course: basic considerations
Seminar 1: Overview of artistic practices and art institutions in the Arab World
Seminar 3: Modernism and post-modernity in the Arab art world
Seminar 4: the a-historical development of the Arabian peninsula
Seminar 5: Palestine: the art of Homo Sacer
Seminar 6: Art and memory in Lebanon
Seminar 7-8: Artists and the disintegration of Iraq and Syria
Seminar 9: The subversive potential of cultural heritage
Seminar 10: Art and politics in the Gulf
The last three seminars are reflections of my other curatorial activities. The subversive potential of cultural heritage was the result of a fellowship I received from NYU Abu Dhabi to explore pre-Islamic cultural heritage in the Gulf countries with local artists; art and politics in the Gulf is a summary of some sections of my book ‘Introduction to Contemporary Art in the Gulf’ and ‘Crisis of History’ shows extracts from a triptych of exhibitions with the same name that I organised in Amsterdam, 2014 and 2015.