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Ahmad is a book broker and publishing consultant specializing in art, architecture and museum books, based in Sharjah-Dubai and the broader Gulf. He leads publication projects for cultural and art organizations, governments, magazines, and architectural practices. He develops books for clients, and provides advise on overall concept and content, design and art direction, end market strategies, and connect clients with relevant publishers and distributors. The aim of his service is to increase the quality and impact of art publications from the Arabian Peninsula and SWANA region.






notable areas:

︎︎︎ Support editorial research and content writing for bilingual (Ar-Eng) book projects  

︎︎︎ Provide cultural and art professionals with advice, evaluation, mentorship, and solutions for book publication projects

︎︎︎ Act as an agent, spokesperson, and book broker with international publishers and bookstores

︎︎︎ Identify talent, assemble team, and develop a workflow for content and writing, graphics and image production, copyediting and proofreading, printing and stocking

︎︎︎ Create templates and frameworks for on-site visitor guides and experience-based printed matter for large-scale art exhibitions and biennials

︎︎︎ Edit and develop critical narratives for exhibition catalogues, artist books, and interdisciplinary readers on art and architecture associated with exhibitions and public art programmes

︎︎︎ Advice and know-how on international bookfairs, bookstores, and retail spaces for niche art, design, and architecture books and magazines


Biography


I am an interdisciplinary writer, bookmaker and thinker expanding the possibilities of knowledge production from the Arab region. As a professional practitioner, I have more than a decade-long
experience in bilingual content development (Arabic-English), art book making and editing, independent and non-traditional publishing, as well as context-specific research in the Arab and Islamic worlds and the South-South cultural sphere.

My interests lie in cross-platform publishing, bilingual knowledge design, print culture histories, subversive aesthetics and critical thinking. I lead and head the publications for Sharjah Art Foundation, a contemporary arts organization, and the annual art book fair, Focal Point. I am also a contributing editor of Architecture and Design titles at Kaph Books, an Arab-based publishing house, alongside freelance editorial and consulting work for various publishing projects. I have worked with art publishing houses such as Koenig, Hatje Cantz, Skira, Thames and Hudson, Duke University Press as well as global contemporary art organizations and museums including MoMa, MACBA, Jeu de Paume, IMMA, Bonniers Konsthall and others.

As an independent practitioner and thinker, I work with deep-time philosophies and totemic environmental practices, spatial and urban studies, gender and identity, Islamic literature and history, speculation and hyperreality, and material philosophy. My research results in narratives, printed matter and artwork which sit at the cross-section of experimental publishing, guerilla-academia, and phantom authorship. Some of these are authored under my own editorial practice, hyperhouse. I have also co-founded the independent publishing projects, THE STATE, ZIGG, and Dubailand. 

My writings can be be found in my own and other books, and I have contributed to zines, magazines, exhibition catalogues, and academic journals. My work has been exhibited in Doha Design Biennial (2024) Porto Design Biennial (2023), Lahore Biennial (2013), Oslo Architecture Triennial (2016), and Lisbon Architecture Triennial (2014). I have lectured and presented at NYU Abu Dhabi, National University of Singapore, New Furturism Rotterdam, CA2M Madrid, Art Jameel Dubai, Strelka Institute Moscow, Studio X - Amman / GSAPP, and others.