ESSAYS
An Aesthetics of Survival, Open Space, January 2020
A Method for Public Reimagining: Move Slowly and Knit Things Together, The Stacks, Public Knowledge, June 2019
Baghdad by the Bay, Open Space, June 2019
Monuments, Placeholders, Ghosts, Open Space, May 2019
On Hiding, Open Space, May 2019
“Postcards of Iraq from Elsewhere,” Radio Silence, Mural Arts, July 2017
No need for silence: Art as Collective Address, Art Practical, Issue 8.3, March 2017
Thinking with Strangers, Open Space, November 2016
What is Visual Activism?, Journal of Visual Culture, vol. 15, no. 1, April 2016
“Wormholes, Shipwrecks, Hybrids” in Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab, Skira Rizzoli, Milan, 2012
“Waste/West,” We can remember it for you wholesale, Roundtable ejournal Issue 3, Gwangju Bienniale 9, August 2012
“Articulating Mathaf: Arab+Museum+Modern+Art” in Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, Skira Rizzoli, Milan, 2010
The Taqwa Bus, Bidoun, Issue 14, spring/summer 2008
INTERVIEWS
A Guide to Infrastructures: An Interview with Tim Hwang, The Stacks, Public Knowledge, April 2019
Interview with Slavs and Tatars, Stages, Liverpool Biennial e-journal Issue 1, February 2014
“Eine Kleine SpaceMusik,” a conversation with Nelly Ben Hayoun, The New Inquiry, August 2013
“The Right Place At The Right Time,” an interview with Greil Marcus, Brink, Issue 1, 2008
A Conversation with Dr. Saad Bashir Eskander, Bidoun, Issue 8, Fall 2006. Also published as “After The Fall: The Iraqi National Library and Archive,” in With/Without: Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East, edited by Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver and Markus Miessen, 2007
EDITING
The Stacks, Public Knowledge, SFMOMA, July-December 2018 (founding editor-in-chief)
Megan Martenyi, “Wide Open Publics: Tracing Grace McCann Morley’s San Francisco,” SFMOMA, August 2017 and Berit Potter, “Grace McCann Morley: Defending and Diversifying Modern Art,” SFMOMA, June 2017 (essay series commissioning editor)
Future City, Stages, Liverpool Biennial e-journal Issue 1, Feb 2014 (guest co-editor)
Expanding Asia: Field Notes from a Changing Cultural Landscape, ArtAsiaPacific 81, Nov–Dec 2012 (guest editor)
Interference: What can Politics Learn from Art? Mathaf/Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2011 (editor)
Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, Shabout, Nada, Wassan Khudhairi and Deena Chalabi, eds. Skira Rizzoli, Milan, 2010 (co-editor/managing editor)