Praxis

Genocide Kitchen

Samaa Emad Abuallaban

Sama Emad is a young Palestinian artist from Gaza. In “The Genocide Kitchen”, she uses collage to document and archive the experiences of the Gazan people, focusing on their relationship with food and the scorched land during forced displacement and the use of starvation as a tool of genocidal warfare.

I, Nazly, My Father’s Son

Nazly Pourshirmohamad

I, Nazli, My Father's Son is an artistic research project in which the artist explores her relationship with her father. Her inquiry gradually led her to gender studies and the in time her work aquires autoethnographic and collective traits. This text is the product of a coauthorship process in which Nazli's narrative becomes interwoven into the stories of her colleagues.

Somewhere in Between: Retracing Footsteps to My Forgotten Identity

Hira Munir

In this photo-essay, Pakistani photographer, Hira Munir, ties the history of her family to the history of the Sind region in the aftermath of the Indian partition and the arrival of the Urdu-speaking migrants. She tries to revisit the forgotten layers of her hybrid identity.

Midway: Dhofar War and the Reluctance of Memory

Amir Alikhani

When Amir Alikhani stumbled upon a collection of photographs and letters from his father, revealing his involvement in the Iranian army's operation during the Dhofar War, it ignited his determination to gain a deeper understanding of that historical event and his father's reluctance to discuss it.