Provoking the Territory – Bernard Khoury

Provoking the Territory – Bernard Khoury

Recognizing the significance of printmaking and artist publishing within the region’s contemporary art landscape, Dongola Limited Editions launched in 2024 a long-term initiative supporting artists working at the Beirut Printmaking Studio, a unique independent artist-run space dedicated to printmaking practice, learning and experimentation in Beirut. The initiative reflects Dongola’s commitment to advancing printmaking and artist publishing across the Arab world through the commissioning and production of two artist’s books every two years.
The inaugural edition features artists Fadi Al Melhem and Ahmad Ghaddar, beginning with Al Melhem’s A Memory That Lasts and Lasts and Lasts, a project that explores questions of patriarchy, masculinity, inheritance, and the ways gender roles and identity are constructed and reinforced within Syrian society.

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About Dongola Architecture Series

The Dongola Architecture Series (DAS) is a biannual book series that offers unique insight into Arab culture through the lens of its most iconic contemporary architects, and attempts to grapple with our environment’s past and present to better inform how we design our future.

Each issue focuses on a specific architect’s formation and processes, and on their contributions to regional knowledge production. DAS is not an endorsement of style, but rather of methodology, affect, and synchronicity with the world. It is an investigation of the ethics, politics, positioning, and decision-making processes of the people tasked to analyze, build, and narrate the world we live in.

Bernard Khoury

Bernard Khoury was born in Beirut in 1968. He studied architecture at the Rhode Island school of Design and received a Master’s in Architectural Studies from Harvard University. He is the co-founder of the Arab Center for Architecture and was a visiting professor in many universities both locally and internationally. He has lectured and exhibited his work in over one-hundred-twenty prestigious academic institutions across the globe. His work was extensively published by the professional press covering a significant portfolio of projects in over fifteen countries.

Raafat Majzoub | Architecture Series Editor-in-chief

Raafat Majzoub is an architect, artist, writer, and Editor-in-Chief of the Dongola Architecture Series. He is a Visiting Lecturer at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology program and a Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Program, where he explores the future in Arab cultural production and advocates for generative knowledge production and circulation. His work spans fiction, performance, and mutual learning, and has been shown internationally, including at Sharjah Biennial 16 and Home Works 9. He is co-editor of Beyond Ruins (2024), Design to Live (2021), and What Are Borders? (2021).

MK Harb | Author

Mohamad Khalil (MK) Harb is a writer with a graduate degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, where he wrote an award-winning thesis on escapism and architecture in Beirut. His fiction has appeared in The White Review, The Bombay Review, and The Markaz Review, while his essays and criticism have been featured in Art Review, Asymptote, BOMB, Hyperallergic, TLS, and Scroope Journal. He contributed to Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction (City Lights, 2024) and served as Editor-at-Large for Lebanon at Asymptote Journal from 2020 to 2023.

Elias Nafaa | Researcher & Editor

Elias Nafaa is a Lebanese-born architect, artist, and researcher based between Beirut and Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal. His practice spans architecture, cultural production, and archival inquiry, with a focus on memory, displacement, and preservation in times of crisis.
 
He is part of the public programming team at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and works as a project manager at Dongola Limited Editions, where he contributes to the Dongola Architecture Series centering Arab architects from the SWANA region. In 2023, he was a fellow of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program. In 2025, he was awarded the Venice Architecture Biennale Fellowship by the Canada Council for the Arts, through which he will pursue independent research and serve as exhibition ambassador at the Canada Pavilion.
 

Editor-in-chief
Raafat Majzoub

Text
MK Harb

Art Director Reza Abedini

Graphic Design
Karim Farah

Researcher and Editor Elias Nafaa

Researcher
Zeina Chamseddine

Copyeditor
Zena Takkieddine

Printing
Anis Commercial Printing Press

Binding
Fouad Baayno BookBindery
Hard cover Binding

Dimensions
23 x 28 cm

The book is distributed in Europe and Internationally through Les Presses du Réel

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