AMCA’s panels at the 2009 MESA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
Pirated Politics: Contemporary Art, Artists, and the Post-production of the Middle East
Chairs: Anneka Lenssen and Rhonda Saad
Discussant: Nada Shabout
Rhonda Saad, (Mis)consuming Reality in Omer Fast’s The Casting (2007)
Elizabeth Rauh, Street Art in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Kathy Zarur, Mediated Reality In and Out of Palestine
Between Public Memory and National Narrative: The Visual Document and History in the Middle East
Chairs: Mitra Abbaspour and Alex Seggerman
Discussant: Kishwar Rizvi
Joanne Nucho, Ordering History in Time: The Beirut National Museum
Katie Pfohl, Joseph Lindon Smith’s Painting Excavations of Egypt
Alexandra Dika Seggerman, The Street and the Road: Public Art in Cairo
Mitra M. Abbaspour, Collecting Truths: Strategies of the Photo Archive in Contemporary Lebanese Art