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Selected texts and publications

  • Abdallah, Monia. “World of Islam Festival (London, 1976): Naissance d’un nouveau paradigme pour les arts de l’Islam.” RACAR: Canadian Art Review 39, no. 1 (2014): 1–10.

  • Abdallah, Monia. “Enquête sur une construction identitaire: "Art Islamique Contemporain"." Zamân, no. 3 (2010): 133-148.

  • Abdallah, Monia. “Exposer l’ «art contemporain du Moyen-Orient» Le British Museum face à ses collections.” Intermédialités, no. 15 (2010):  91–104. 

  • Accascina, Maria. Ottocento Siciliano: Pittura. Palermo: Fondazione Whitaker, 1982.

  • Akamatis, Ioannis, Alexandra Goulaki-Voutyra, Eleonora Vratskidou and Christina Tsagkalia, eds. Tériade: France- Grèce. Thessaloniki: Fondation Teloglion- Université Aristote de Thessalonique, 2015.

  • Alaoui, Brahim, and Rajae Benchemsi, eds. Farid Belkahia et l’École Des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca, 1962-1974. Paris: Skira, 2020. 

  • Alaoui, Brahim, ed. Farid Belkahia: ou l’Art En Liberté or Art at Liberty. Paris: Skira, 2018.

  • Ali, Wijdan. Modern Islamic Art: Development and Continuity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997.

  • Altea, Giuliana and Nico Stringa. Fancello: Lo spanzio della metamorfosi. Nuoro: Ilisso, 2016.

  • Antoniadou, Sophia, and Anthony Pace, eds. Mediterranean Crossroads. Athens: Pierides Foundation Publications, 2007.

  • Arthurs, Joshua. Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012.

  • Bakhtiar, Laleh. Sufi: Expressions of the Mystic Quest. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.

  • Bardaouil, Sam, and Till Fellrath, eds. Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938-1948). Paris: Skira, 2016.

  • Boissier, Annabelle, and Fanny Gillet. “Ruptures, Renaissances et Continuités. Modes de Construction de l’Histoire de l’Art Maghrébin.” L’Année Du Maghreb 10 (2014): 207–232. 

  • Boullata, Kamal, and John Berger. Palestinian Art 1850-2005. London: Saqi, 2009.

  • Bonello, Giovanni, ed. Girolamo Gianni in Malta. Malta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 1994.

  • Bourial, Hatem. "De mémoire Maltaise: Henri Zarb et les beys de Tunis". Tunis-Hebdo. Accessed 11 August, 2022. https://www.webdo.tn/2020/11/13/memoire-maltaise-henri-zarb-et-les-beys-de-tunis/. 

  • Bovingdon, Roderick. Laurent Ropà.  Malta: Horizons, 2015.

  • Bozal, Valeriano. Historia de la pintura y la escultura del siglo XX en España: II. 1940-2010. Madrid: Antonio Machado Libros, 2013.

  • Bozal, Valeriano. Estudios de arte contemporáneo, II: Temas de arte español del siglo XX. Madrid: Antonio Machado Libros, 2007.

  • Brancato, Francesco. L'Esposizione Nazionale di Palermo: 15 novembre 1891- 5 giugno 1892. Palermo: Edizione Grifo, 1985.

  • Braudel, Fernand. Out of Italy: Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise. New York: Europa Compass, 2019.

  • Brennan, Timothy. Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

  • Bugeja, Warren. “From Rome with Love: International artist with a modern spirit: Giorgio Preca exhibition at MUŻA.” Times of Malta (2022). Accessed 18 February 2023. https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/from-rome-with-love.932167

  • Burke, Edmund. “Toward a Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean, 1750-1919.” Journal of World History 23, no. 4 (2012): 907–939. 

  • Carmona, Eugenio, ed. Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo. Dallas: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2016. 

  • Carmona, Eugenio, ed. Picasso and Spanish Modernity. Florence: Mandragora, 2015.

  • Carrera, Manuel. “Il ritratto moderno in Italia e la pittura internazionale (1895-1915).” In Liberty in Italia: artisti alla ricerca del moderno, edited by Francesco Parisi and Anna Villari, 30-35. Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2016-2017.

  • Cassola, Arnold. Maltese Migration in Tunisian Coastal Towns (1836-1844). Syracuse: Morrone Editore, 2020.

  • Cassola, Arnold. The Maltese of Vittoria and Scoglitti (1628-1846). Syracuse: Morrone Editore, 2018.

  • Çelik, Zeynep. Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient: A Critical Discourse from the East (1872-1932). Istanbul: Koç University Press, 2021.

  • Cherki, Alice. Frantz Fanon: A Portrait. Translated by Nadia Benabid. Ithaca: Cornell University press, 2006.

  • Chrēstou, Chrysanthos. Modern Greek Engraving. Athens: Ekdot, 1994.

  • Critchlow, Keith. Islamic Patterns: An Analytical and Cosmological Approach. London: Thames & Hudson, 1989.

  • Cutajar, Dominic, and Emmanuel Fiorentino. “Trends and Influences in Maltese Art 1800-1964”. In The British Colonial Experience 1800-1964, edited by Victor Mallia Milanes. Malta: Mireva Publications, 1988.

  • Cutajar, Dominic, and Carmel Cassar. “Malta's role in Mediterranean affairs: 1530-1699”. In Malta: Studies of its Heritage and History, edited J. H. Newman, 105-140. Malta: Mid-Med Bank Ltd, 1986.

  • Danos, Antonis. “Twentieth-Century Greek Cypriot Art: An “Other” Modernism on the Periphery.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 32, no. 2 (2014): 217–252.  

  • Debono, Sandro. “Għonnella: A British-Styled Allegory for Twentieth-Century Malta.” In Peasant Costumes - Insights into Rural Life and Society, edited by Kenneth Gambin, 67-75. Malta: Heritage Malta, 2012.

  • Dunwoodie, Peter. “Bertrand, Audisio, Camus: trois faces du «régionalisme méditerranéen».” Paper presented at Colloque International Albert Camus, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark, 2010. 

  • Edwards, Natalie, Ben McCann, and Peter Poiana, eds. Framing French Culture. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2015.

  • Eigner, Saeb. Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran. London: Merrell, 2015.

  • El-Said, Issam, and Ayşe Parman. Geometric Concepts in Islamic Art. Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour Publications, 1976.

  • Enguita, Nuria, and Nacho París. Arte en una tierra baldía, 1939-1959. Colección IVAM. Valencia: IVAM, 2022.

  • Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Translated by Constance Farrington. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967.

  • Flood, Finbarr Barry. “Picasso the Muslim: Or, How the Bilderverbot became modern (Part 1).” Res 67-68, (2016/2017): 42-60.

  • Flood, Finbarr Barry. "Picasso the Muslim: Or, How the Bilderverbot became modern (Part 2)." Res 69-70, (2018): 251-268. 

  • Frazzetto, Giuseppe. Art in Catania: 1921-1950. Catania: Pellicano Libri, 1984.

  • Freller, Thomas. The Last Corsairs of Malta: An Incredible True Story. Malta: Midsea Books, 2007.

  • Galea, John, and Charles Camilleri. Charles Camilleri: Ten Piano Sonatinas & Taqsim for Two Pianos: A Study on Their Mediterranean Genetics. Aylesbury: Roberton Publications, 2001.

  • Gauthier, Michel, ed. Farid Belkahia: Pour une autre modernité / For a New Modernity. Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021.

  • Gauthier, Michel. Melehi. Paris: Skira, 2019.

  • Gauthier, Michel. Mohamed Hamidi. Paris: Skira, 2021.

  • Gershoni, Israel, ed. Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism: Attraction and Repulsion. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2015.

  • Gillet, Fanny. “The Impact of the Arab Revolutions on Artistic Production in Algeria: Between Saving the Local Model and Denouncing Foreign Interference.” In Waiting for Omar Gatlato: A Survey of Contemporary Art from Algeria and Its Diaspora, edited by Natasha Marie Llorens, 81-99.  London: Sternberg Press, 2019.

  • Gillet, Fanny. “Les artistes algériens à Paris pendant la guerre d'Algérie: entre quête de reconnaissance et construction d'un discours esthétique moderne.” De la guerre dans l'art, de l'art dans la guerre, Revue Textuel, Paris 7, no. 63 (2011): 161-173.

  • Goldwyn, Adam J., and Renée M. Silverman eds. Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

  • Goudal, Emilie. “Defining a Space for New Art Genealogies – North-African and Middle-Eastern Modernities and Critical Legacies.” Critique d’art, no. 51 (2018): 57-69.

  • Goudal, Émilie. “Écrire une histoire de l'art “modern” en Algérie: Mohamed Khadda, Pensées pour un art nouveau.” In Avant que la "magie" n'opére. Modernités artistiques en Afrique, edited by Nora Greani and Maureen Murphy, pp.29-44. Paris: Institut national d'histoire de l'art, 2015.

  • Gruber, Christiane J., and Sune Haugbolle. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

  • Hamri, Mohamed. Tales of Joujouka. California: Capra Press, 1975.

  • Hopkins, Claudia. “The Politics of Spanish Orientalism: Distance and Proximity in Tapiró and Bertuchi.” Art in Translation 9, no. 1 (2017): 134-167.

  • Jakubowska, Agata, and Magdalena Radomska, eds. Horizontal Art History and Beyond: Revising Peripheral Critical Practices. New York and London: Routledge, 2023.

  • Kholeif, Omar, and Candy Stobbs, eds. Imperfect Chronology: Arab Art from the Modern to the Contemporary: Works from the Barjeel Art Foundation. London: Prestel, 2015.

  • Kitroeff, Alexander. The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2019.

  • Kollárová, Alexandra. "Contemporary art practice in the Middle East – The case of Cairo Townhouse gallery." Ethnologia Slovaca Et Slavica 38 (2017): 39-58. 

  • LaDuke, Betty. “Egyptian Painter Inji Efflatoun: The Merging of Art, Feminism, and Politics.” NWSA Journal 1, no. 3 (1989): 474-485.

  • Lenssen, Anneka. “Inji Efflatoun: White Light.” Boletín de Arte, no. 41 (2020): 33-44.

  • Lenssen, Anneka, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout, eds. Modern Art in the Arab World. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018.

  • Lenssen, Anneka. "Adham Ismaʿil’s Arabesque: The Making of Radical Arab Painting in Syria." In Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World Volume 34, edited by Gülru Necipoğlu, 223-250. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

  • Makdisi, Ussama. Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.

  • Mazower, Mark. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2021.

  • Mbembe, Achille. “Fanon’s Nightmare, our Reality.” Mail & Guardian (2011). Accessed 26 September, 2022. https://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-23-fanons-nightmare-our-reality/.

  • McCarthy, Conor. The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

  • Mikhail, Alan. God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan who Shaped the Modern World. London: Faber, 2020.

  • Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga. La tradición moderna en la Colección Carmen Thyssen. Monet, Picasso, Matisse, Miró. Málaga: Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga, 2011. 

  • Naef, Silvia. “Reexploring Islamic Art: Modern and Contemporary Creation in the Arab World and Its Relation to the Artistic Past.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no.43 (Spring 2003): 164-174.

  • Ottinger, Didier and Marie Sarrè, eds. Abstraction and Calligraphy: Towards a Universal Language. London: Scala Arts Publishers, 2021.

  • Parry, Jonathan. Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2022.

  • Piotrowski, Piotr. “Towards a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde.” In European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, edited by Sascha Bru and Peter Nicholls. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

  • Polevoĭ, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich. Искусство Греции / Iskusstvo Gret︠s︡ii. Moscow: Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1984.

  • Porter, Venetia, Charles Tripp, and Natasha Morris. Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa. London: The British Museum Press, 2020.

  • Pouillon, François. “150 Years of Algerian Painting: Relevance for Understanding the Postcolonial Situation.” French Politics, Culture & Society 20, no. 2 (2002): 141-158. 

  • Pouillon, François. “Legs Colonial, Patrimoine National: Nasreddine Dinet, Peintre de l’Indigène Algérien.” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 30, no. 119 (1990): 329–363. 

  • Refalo, Michael. Among Others - The Maltese in Egypt: Life, Crime and Death (1860s-1923). Malta: Kite Publishing, 2021.

  • Rizi, Fabio Fernando. Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003.

  • Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage Books, 2007.

  • Said, Edward W. Orientalism. London: Penguin, 1978.

  • Sammut, Austin. The Court Martial of Enrico Mizzi. Malta: Midsea Books, 2005.

  • Scheid, Kirsten. “Distinctions That Could Be Drawn: Choucair’s Paris and Beirut.” In Saloua Raouda Choucair, edited by Jessica Morgan, 41-55. London: Tate Publishing, 2013.

  • Scheid, Kirsten. “The Everywhere in Here.” In Peeping Tom’s Digest, no. 3 (2013): 45-49.

  • Scheid, Kirsten. “On Arabs and the Art Awakening: Warnings from a Narcoleptic Population.” Jadaliyya (2012). Accessed 25 May, 2023. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/26989/On-Arabs-and-the-Art-Awakening-Warnings-from-a-Narcoleptic-Population

  • Scheid, Kirsten. “The Study of Islamic Art at a Crossroad, and Humanity as a Whole.” In Islamic Art and the Museum: Approaches to Art and Archaeology of the Muslim World in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber and Gerhard Wolf, 90-94. London: Saqi Books, 2012.

  • Seggerman, Alex Dika. Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

  • Seif, Ola. “Hotspots of Inspiration. Art Hubs that Transformed the Egyptian Art Scene.” Rawi Magazine 8 (2016). Accessed 17 July, 2022. https://rawi-publishing.com/articles/ hotspots_of_inspiration/

  • Shabout, Nada M. Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2015.

  • Shabout, Nada M. “The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art.” South Atlantic Quarterly 109, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 529–543. 

  • Sheehi, Stephen. "Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of the Arab Vision." Discourse 28, no.1 (Winter 2006): 72-97.

  • Smith, Andrea. Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe: Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

  • Smith, Andrea. “Place Replaced: Colonial Nostalgia and Pied-Noir Pilgrimages to Malta.” Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 3 (2003): 329-364.

  • Spiteris, Tony. Arte Dopo il 1945 Grecia. Rocca San Casciano: Cappelli Editore, 1971.

  • Spiteris, Tony. Introduction à la peinture néo-hellénique. Gradignan: Librairie du Cardinal, 1962.

  • Spiteris, Tony. Grecia di ieri e Grecia di oggi. Spirito e continuita. Venice: La Tipografica, 1962.

  • Spiteris, Tony. L'evolution de la peinture post-byzantine dans les iles Ioniennes. Athens: Retsas Books, 1952.

  • Spiteris, Tony. Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs de Grèce. Athens, 1952.

  • Stagno, Laura, and Borja Franco Llopis, eds. Lepanto and Beyond: Images of Religious Alterity from Genoa and the Christian Mediterranean. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021.

  • Stone, Marla. “Staging Fascism: The Exhibition of the Fascist Revolution.” Journal of Contemporary History 28, no. 2 (1993): 215-243.

  • Vogl, Mary. “Algerian Painters as Pioneers of Modernism.” In A Companion to Modern African Art, edited by Gitti Salami and Monica Blackmun Visonà, 197-217. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 

  • Weeks, Emily M. Cultures Crossed: John Frederick Lewis and the Art of Orientalism. London: Yale University Press, 2014.

  • Wylie, Diana. Enchantment: Pictures from the Tangier American Legation Museum. Morocco: TALIM, 2012.

  • Zarnett, David. 2008. “Edward Said and the West.” Review of Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism, by Ibn Warraq and Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid, by Daniel Martin Varisco. Democratiya 12 (2008): 50-61.

  • Zondi, Siphamandla. “Afro-centric IR Perspectives: Decolonial Epistemic Options for the analysis of African-EU Relations.” Paper presented at African Voices in the New International Relations Theory, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 2013.

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