Common Ground: Aspects of Contemporary Muslim Experience in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and South East Asia / أرضية مشتركة- جوانب من التجربة المعاصرة للمسلمين في المملكة المتحدة و الشرق الأوسط و جنوب شرق آسيا

Exhibition catalog. February 2006. The project Common Ground has been many years in the making- initially conceived in 2001 as a series of new commissions for 8 young British artists on issues relating to Muslim identity in the UK, the project took on new life in 2003, working with curators in Indonesia and Malaysia to develop parallel bodies of work, and now with the involvement of artists from the Gulf States and Yemen, the project takes on new momentum. Common Grounds provides an opportunity not only for interaction between the UK, Malay, Indonesian, Gulf and Yemeni artists on crucial quetions concerning the role of art in hsaping responses to the question of Muslim identity, and also intercultural identity. Curators: Sean Williams, Jamal al Moosawi-Hassanovich and Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo. Editors: Jamal al Moosawi-Hassanovich and Ismail Rifai. Amyandtanveer; The Belle Vue Studio; Clement Cooper, Suki Dhanda, Rehan Jamil, Anthony Lam, Sam Ptyasena; Jagtar Semplay; Tim Smith; Nuha Asad; Amal Al Athem; Manal al Dowayan; Hassan Meer and Ibrahim Al Qasimi; Boushra al Mutawakil; Khalifa al Obaidly; Anas al Shaikh; Camille Zakharia; Ray Bachtiar; Yee I-Lann; Muhammad Iqbal; Soraya Yosuf Talismail. Texts: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.

English; Arabic