The World · 15

Middle East & North Africa

Painting, poetry, performance, exile and historical reconstruction reveal a region of many modernisms—not a single cultural story.

01Baya MahieddineA self-invented world overturns colonial expectations.02Dia Al-AzzawiModern form carries the epic weight of Arab history.03Etel AdnanColour holds landscape, language and exile together.04Huguette CalandThe line makes freedom intimate, humorous and bodily.05MarwanThe face becomes a landscape of memory and exile.06Mona HatoumHome turns uncanny under pressure from exile and control.07Shirin NeshatThe image becomes a charged border between power and identity.08Wael ShawkyHistory is retold until its authority begins to crack.