Dar Al Sulh gallery — MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

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A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

MICHAEL RAKOWITZ

Folder: PROJECTS

A house with a date palm will never starve

The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)

The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)

The invisible enemy should not exist

May the obdurate foe not be in good health

The Ballad of Special Ops Cody

I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze

For us, the living

The flesh is yours, the bones are ours

Imperfect Binding

Geniza for Ostia

What dust will rise?

May the arrogant not prevail

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own

White man got no dreaming

The Visionaries

Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy

(p)LOT: Proposition I

Romanticized all out of proportion

Climate Control

Jews were once Arabs, too. Their exodus from Arab lands is one that has been propagandized and mythologized by Israel, by the flawed narrative of Zionism, and by other entities in order to bolster specific cultural and political positions. Da

My grandmother, Renée Isaac David (Née Shamoon), center, with her sister Marcelle, left, and her sister-in-law Leonie. Baghdad, Iraq, ca. 1940.

The surfaces upon which the dinners were served are from Jewish families who left Iraq in the 1940s and 1950s. Some are everyday dishes. Others are more precious, like the tray pictured here, which was used to serve traditional recipes in the Great

The meals  were thematically organized into seven loose themes to reflect the properties of each meal, and to instigate the topic of each dinner discussion. They are light and heavy, augmented by the five basic tastes, four of which were o

Preparing Kubba Qari ’ yi on opening night, May 1, 2013.

Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat, herself an Iraqi Jew, is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University and affiliated with NYU-Abu Dhabi. Since the 1980s she has written extensively on Orientalism, postcoloniality, and diasporic cultures, while also

Mhasha , a dish consisting of stuffed grape leaves, aubergines, courgettes, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Cooked and served on the final night, May 7, 2013.

The restaurant also hosted Tuning Baghdad , which provided a soundtrack for the dining experience. A project initiated by independent curator Regine Basha—our other co-host and interlocutor at Dar Al Sulh— Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing

Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat delivering a typical Iraqi Jewish greeting before the meal to diners at Dar Al Sulh.

A single photo adorned the walls of Dar Al Sulh: Palestinians protecting the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. The image serves as a surrogate for others that do not seem to have been documented, of the Muslim

While it was impossible to openly advertise an Iraqi Jewish restaurant in Dubai—our signage instead declared “Cuisine of an Absent Tribe”—each night’s dinner service was sold out beyond capacity and in the end, more than 500 diners ate at Dar Al

Two Iraqi flags hung inside the restaurant. The first one was adopted for six months in 1958, and was identical to the Palestinian flag. The second was donated by an Iraqi Jewish man who wished to remain anonymous and was a communist back in the 19

Jews were once Arabs, too. Their exodus from Arab lands is one that has been propagandized and mythologized by Israel, by the flawed narrative of Zionism, and by other entities in order to bolster specific cultural and political positions. Da

My grandmother, Renée Isaac David (Née Shamoon), center, with her sister Marcelle, left, and her sister-in-law Leonie. Baghdad, Iraq, ca. 1940.

The surfaces upon which the dinners were served are from Jewish families who left Iraq in the 1940s and 1950s. Some are everyday dishes. Others are more precious, like the tray pictured here, which was used to serve traditional recipes in the Great

The meals  were thematically organized into seven loose themes to reflect the properties of each meal, and to instigate the topic of each dinner discussion. They are light and heavy, augmented by the five basic tastes, four of which were o

Preparing Kubba Qari ’ yi on opening night, May 1, 2013.

Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat, herself an Iraqi Jew, is Professor of Cultural Studies at New York University and affiliated with NYU-Abu Dhabi. Since the 1980s she has written extensively on Orientalism, postcoloniality, and diasporic cultures, while also

Mhasha , a dish consisting of stuffed grape leaves, aubergines, courgettes, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Cooked and served on the final night, May 7, 2013.

The restaurant also hosted Tuning Baghdad , which provided a soundtrack for the dining experience. A project initiated by independent curator Regine Basha—our other co-host and interlocutor at Dar Al Sulh— Tuning Baghdad brings together a growing

Dr. Ella Habiba Shohat delivering a typical Iraqi Jewish greeting before the meal to diners at Dar Al Sulh.

A single photo adorned the walls of Dar Al Sulh: Palestinians protecting the Maghen Abraham Synagogue in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. The image serves as a surrogate for others that do not seem to have been documented, of the Muslim

While it was impossible to openly advertise an Iraqi Jewish restaurant in Dubai—our signage instead declared “Cuisine of an Absent Tribe”—each night’s dinner service was sold out beyond capacity and in the end, more than 500 diners ate at Dar Al

Two Iraqi flags hung inside the restaurant. The first one was adopted for six months in 1958, and was identical to the Palestinian flag. The second was donated by an Iraqi Jewish man who wished to remain anonymous and was a communist back in the 19