Di/Visions critically examined ideologies and practices of divisions and borders in the Middle East. It was a joint project of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe in the year 2008.
„Di/Visions. Culture and Poltics of the Middle East” was edited by Catherine David, Georges Khalil und Bernd Scherer and included a DVD with the conversations (Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009). Since 2015 the edited volume has been available as an open access publication.
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Mroué, Rabih
Who Is Afraid of Representation?
Rabih Mroué is a performance artist and filmmaker who travels between the Middle East and Western Europe. His endeavours to deal directly with political and social reality are formulated in a well-thought-through formal language. In his semi-documentary works, the boundaries between reality and fiction are blurred. He studied theatre at the Université Libanaise in Beirut and has been producing his own plays since 1990. He has been a much celebrated figure since his appearances at festivals such as the Theater der Welt and In Transit in Europe. Mroué is a board member of the Beirut Art Center. His most recent plays include The Pixelated Revolution (2012), Photo-Romance (2009), The inhabitants of images (2009) and How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke (2007). In 2010, he got the Spalding Gray Award.
