Published to accompany an exhibition by Rose Issa Projects at the Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, ‘Arabicity: Such a Near East’ features the work of Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Chant Avedissian, Ayman Baalbaki, Fathi Hassan, and Raeda Saadeh.

These six artists explore their cultural heritage and express what they find in unique and varied ways. Whether through performance, painting or installation, ‘Arabicity’ presents their conceptual and asethetic concerns, executed with great warmth, humour and poetry.

Bluecoat Arts Centre and Beyond Art Productions, June 2010
52 pages, 22 colour illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9538896-9-3