Fehras Publishing Practices

Fehras Publishing Practices, co-founded in Berlin, researches the history and socio-political entanglement of publishing in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arabic diaspora.

Their work focuses on the relationship between publishing and history-making, using translation as a tool to challenge cultural domination and foster solidarity.

Fehras acts as an observatory for publishing strategies linked to the political and geographical shifts in the EMNA region.

Their research involves collecting and re-curating archival materials such as books, photographs, and media, placing them in new spatial and temporal contexts.

City

Berlin

Country

Germany

Region

Europe

Year of Creation

2015

Featured Project

Borrowed Faces: Stories of Publishers during the Cold War

This project, which included digging into print archives from the 1950-60s, will ultimately take the form of a photo roman that we at Fehras will publish in a magazine series. The historical fiction series will reconsider and rearrange the events of the Cold War era, as refracted in the publishing archive, and will create probable links and relationships between individuals and institutions, blurring the lines between what is and is not historical fact.

Learn more about Borrowed Faces

Resources

Rustom, S., Nicolas, O., Darwich, K., & Montero, G. G. (2021). Fehras Publishing Practices: an email interview. Art Libraries Journal, 46(4), 113-119.

Mermier, F. (2022). Creating a Syrian Culture in Exile: The Reconfigurations of Engagement. In The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement (pp. 35-62). Brill.

Atallah, N., & Masoero, F. Curating Networks Self-reflective notes on Madrassa Collective.

Liu, D. (2024). Unorchestrated Symphony: documenta fifteen as a Site of Resistance. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 1-27.

More Information

https://www.fehraspublishingpractices.org/Home

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