WORK WORK WORK
200 Dhs - Edition of 40
12.5 x 18.5 cm
Three booklets (Arabic, English, Urdu) with metal bind
The book draws from The Earth Speaks Urdu, a play by the late Emirati writer and poet Ahmed Rashid Thani, staged in Sharjah and Al Ain in the 1980s. It satirized modern relationships between Khaleeji Arabs and migrants from south and west asia. WORK WORK WORK is my own interpretive mutation of the contents of the play and the author. It complicates assumptions made by cultural workers and thinkers about Gulf society, talks about the maritime history of Khorfakkan, Thani's birthplace, and histories of work and migration to the Khaleej.
