Preamble / Stanley N Katz

Preface and acknowledgments / Judith K Brodsky and Ferris Olin

Essays: The fertile crescent: gender, art, and society / Judith K Brodsky and Ferris Olin ; The art of revolution in Egypt: brushes with women / Margot Badran ; Art, precarity, biopolitics / Kelly Baum ; Slipping away (or uncompliant cartographies) / Gilane Tawadros

Artists: Negar Ahkami ; Shiva Ahmadi ; Jananne Al-Ani ; Fatima Al Qadiri ; Monira Al Qadiri ; Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh ; Zeina Barakeh ; Ofri Cnaani ; Nezaket Ekici ; Diana El Jeiroudi ; Parastou Forouhar ; Ayana Friedman ; Shadi Ghadirian ; Mona Hatoum ; Hayv Kahraman ; Efrat Kedem ; Sigalit Landau ; Ariane Littman ; Shirin Neshat ; Ebru Ozsecen ; Laila Shawa ; Shahzia Sikander ; Fatimah Tuggar ; Nil Yalter

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