Crude - Arabic Exhibition Catalogue Zine but also to a rich

but also to a rich cultural history and the endangered Soqotri language

Publisher: Penguin Random House

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Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits

Crude - Arabic Exhibition Catalogue Zine but also to a richThe publication features texts by Murtaza Vali as well as rare archival and photographic material looking at the history of crude: oil as an archive, infrastructure and technology. Vali reflects on the works in the exhibition as well as the specific technologies and immaterialities that oil has enabled on a sociological, cultural and environmental level in the regionnarrating an alternate material history of modernity in the region. Artists included: