Tamass means demarcation line but it also means tangency and contact. Catherine David has come up with a project: Contemporary Arab Representations comprised of a series of conferences, performances, and publications from various sources, architects, writers and poets aiming at reinforcing the link between the various Arab cultural centers and the world. The first issue Tamass 1 was dedicated to Beirut and Lebanon and the endorsement of an experimental local Arab culture. It includes essays by Catherine David, Walid Sadek, Jalal Toufic, Tony Chakar, Bilal Khbeiz, Walid Raad, Paola Yacoub, Elias Khoury, Rabih Mroue, Marwen Rechmaoui and Michel Lasserre.

Walid Raad: The Atlas Group by Walid Raad and Jalal Toufic

The Atlas Group was established in 1999 to document contemporary Lebanese history. This publication is comprised of two texts by Lebanese writer Jalal Toufic juxtaposed to a series of photographs and video stills by Walid Raad and The Atlas Group, accompanied by a multi-page fold out of images from the video, We Can Make Rain But No One Came To Ask.

Out of Beirut bu Collective

After the end of the civil war in 1990 Beirut became a centre for innovative art making and critical thought. More than 15 years later political instability and assassinations still obscure the headlines. Out of Beirut is an exhibition of recent works by local artists such as Fadi Abdallah, Gilbert Hage, Heartland, Bernard Khoury, Rabib Mroue, Walid Raad, Walid Sadek, Jalal Toufic, Paola Yacoub and Michel Lasserre and Akram Zaatari, among others.