Selected publications:
Monograph
The Contemporary Art Scene in Syria: Social Critique and an Artistic Movement, London and New York: Routledge 2020
Academic journals and edited books with peer review:
Feminism and Social Critique in Syrian Contemporary Art, in Ceren Özpınar and Mary Kelly (eds.): Under the Skin: Feminist Art from the Middle East and North Africa Today, Oxford: Proceedings of the British Academy 2020, pp. 26 – 40
Film and Video as a Space for Political Expression and Social Critique in Syria, Artl@s Bulletin 9:1, 2020 https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol9/iss1/7/
Give Sorrow Images: Trauma and Loss in the Works of Displaced Artists from Syria, in Lucy Wrapson, Victoria Sutcliffe, Sally Woodcock and Spike Bucklow (eds.): Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders, London: Archetype Publications 2019, pp. 130 – 14
Art Education in Twentieth Century Syria, in Nino Nanobashvili and Tobias Teutenberg (eds.): Drawing Education Worldwide! Continuities - Transfers – Mixtures, Heidelberg: University of Heidelberg Press 2019, pp. 305 – 319
Performing critique: Chaza Charafeddine’s Divine Comedy as an inter-temporal dialogue on gender and sexual diversity, in Pedram Khosronejad (ed.): Beauty and the Beast: photography, the body and sexual discourse in the Middle East and Central Eurasia, Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia 5 & 6, Summer 2017 – Winter 2018/19, pp. 85 – 101
Translating Commitment. Some Thoughts on Critical Artistic Production in the Arab World, in Jelle Bouwhuis (ed.): Furthering, nurturing and futuring Global Art Histories?, Kunstlicht Vol. 39, 2018, no. 1, Spring 2018
Painting as critique: Oil painting as a site for social and political negotiation in Syria, in: Silvia Naef and Elahe Helbig (eds.): Visual Modernity in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran: Reintroducing the ‘Missing Modern’, Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques (ASI) Volume 70, Issue 4, 2016, pp. 1285 - 1306
Calling things by their real names: Anonymous artistic production and the Syrian uprising, Fusion Journal Issue 9, Anonymous: The Void in Visual Culture, Fall 2016, http://www.fusion-journal.com/issue/009-anonymous-the-void-in-visual-culture/calling-things-by-their-real-names-anonymity-and-artistic-online-production-during-the-syrian-uprising/
Veiled Visuality. Video Art in Syria, ISIM Review, Fall 2008, https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/17270
Encyclopedia contribution
Marwan Kassab-Bachi, Mathaf Encyclopedia, Doha: Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art (published 2021) http://13.80.22.208/en/bios/Pages/Marwan-Kassab-Bachi.aspx
Reviews
Natasha Gasparian, Commitment in the Artistic Practice of Aref El-Rayess: The Changing of Horses, Manazir Journal, September 1, 2021, https://manazir.art/blog/natasha-gasparian-commitment-artistic-practice-aref-el-rayess-changing-horses-bank/
Chapters in books and edited volumes:
The Art of Persuasion. Posters of the Anonymous Syrian Artist Collective Alshaab alsori aref tarekh, in: Syria Speaks. Art and Culture from the Frontline, edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud, London: Saqi Books 2014, pp. 66 – 83
Essays in exhibition catalogues:
Un/sichtbare Städte – die Bildwelten von Tammam Azzam, in Tammam Azzam Dämmerung und Morgenlicht, Sexten: Museum Rudolf Stolz and Berlin: Galerie Kornfeld 2020
Perpetual Metamorphosis. The Paintings of Marwan, in Berlin: Galerie Haas 2018, pp. 13 – 14
Wandering Witness, in Mario Rizzi. Bare Lives, Berlin: Archive Books 2017, pp. 56 – 59
Precarious Life. The Photography of Mohamed Badarne, in: Come Back Safely. Mohamad Badarne, Berlin: European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights e.V., 2016, pp. 85 – 87
Marwan. Topographies of the Soul, in: Marwan Qassab Bachi. Topographies of the Soul, Sharjah: Barjeel Art Foundation, 2014, pp. 1 – 3
Whose Contemporaneity?, in: Errors Allowed, Mediterranea 16 – Young Artists Biennial Ancona 2013, Macerata: Quodlibet 2013, pp. 130 – 137 (co-authoured with Delphine Leccas)
Open Secrets. Contemporary art in Syria, in: After the Rage, Athens 2011(unpaginated)
Still Lives – still alive, in: Mohammad Said Baalbaki, exhibition catalogue, Damascus: Rafia Gallery, 2010 (unpaginated)
Art journals
"There is no Syrian Cinema”. Syrian Filmmakers Since the Civil War, Sight and Sound Magazine 08/2017, http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/syrian-filmmaking-act-resistance
Kunst im Kreuzfeuer. Syrische KünstlerInnen drei Jahre nach Beginn der Revolte, Springerin Summer 2014, pp. 22 – 25
Von der Notwendigkeit des schnellen Agierens. Die syrische Online-Videoszene und ihr Engagement für eine neue Zivilgesellschaft, Springerin, Summer 2012, pp. 14 – 15
Grenzgänge. Beispiele künstlerischen Arbeitens über Exil und Entwurzelung, Springerin Summer 2011, pp. 54 – 57
Am Anfang war die Schrift. Multimediainstallation des Künstlers Salah Saouli, Springerin, Summer 2010, p. 13
hSteve Sabella: „In Exile“, Nafas Kunstmagazin, July 2010, http://u-in-u.com/en/nafas/articles/2010/steve-sabella/
Junge Kunst in Syrien. Eine Bestandaufnahme, Springerin, Fall 2009, pp. 54 – 57
Damaszener Frühling, Nafas Kunstmagazin, July 2007, http://u-in-u.com/de/nafas/articles/2007/damaszener-fruehling/
Other cultural writings
Vom Leben gezeichnet. Syrisches Kunstprojekt Cutting Away the Void, Qantara e-magazine, December 2014, https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/syrisches-kunstprojekt-cutting-away-the-void-vom-leben-gezeichnet
Zwischen Traum und Trauma. Mohamad Malas’ Film “Ladder to Damascus”, Qantara e-magazine, March 2014, https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/mohammad-malas-film-ladder-to-damascus-zwischen-traum-und-trauma
Ein Mosaikstein des Kollektiven Gedächtnisses. Salah Saouli: The Days of the Blue Bat, Qantara e-magazine, May 2013, https://de.qantara.de/content/salah-saouli-days-blue-bat-ein-mosaikstein-des-kollektiven-gedachtnisses
Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Kunst und Aktivismus. „Bewegte Bilder“ – syrische Kurzfilme und Videos, Qantara e-magazine, November 2012, https://de.qantara.de/content/bewegte-bilder-syrische-kurzfilme-und-videos-im-spannungsfeld-zwischen-kunst-und-aktivismu-0
Jagd auf unbequeme Kulturschaffende, Qantara e-magazine, August 2012, http://de.qantara.de/content/vermisst-syriens-filmproduzent-orwa-nyrabia-jagd-auf-unbequeme-kulturschaffende
Gegen den Strich. Arabische Comic-Szene, Qantara e-magazine, July 2012, https://de.qantara.de/content/arabische-comic-szene-gegen-den-strich
Kreatives Erwachen. Kunst und Widerstand in Syrien, Qantara e-magazine, March 2012, https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/kunst-und-widerstand-in-syrien-kreatives-erwachen
Die Kunst des doppelten Bodens, Qantara e-magazine, September 2011, https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/syrische-kuenstler-zwischen-zensur-und-kritik-die-kunst-des-doppelten-bodens
Wind des Wandels, Qantara e-magazine, August 2011, https://de.qantara.de/content/junge-arabische-kunstler-und-sozialer-protest-wind-des-wandels
Wide Field of Vision, The Majalla, November 2010, http://eng.majalla.com/2010/11/article55192713/wide-field-of-vision
Mapping Paradise. Damascus as seen by Contemporary Syrian Artists, The Majalla, October 2010, http://eng.majalla.com/2010/10/article55165707/mapping-paradise
Fragmente der Erinnerung, Qantara e-magazine, May 2010, https://de.qantara.de/inhalt/contemparabia-2010-in-beirut-fragmente-der-erinnerung
Leaving the Cultural Backyard. Experimental Art in Damascus, Qantara e-magazine, July 2009, https://en.qantara.de/content/experimental-art-in-damascus-leaving-the-cultural-backyard
