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VG condition softcover, clean and unmarked. 1998 softcover, 160 pp, 32 pages of color plates with English/Farsi captions, six-page English language introduction, one-page map in English, remaining text in Farsi.

Near fine condition softcover, sticker on back cover, clean and unmarked.
Compilation of the author's newspaper columns from Arab News.

Near fine condition softcover, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings, 229 pp. The author is a Harvard educated architect.

Very good condition hardcover, pencil underlinings on one page else clean and unmarked. Includes DVD and fold-out map; unpaginated. Texts in English, Arabic and Hebrew languages. Includes a film in collaboration with Julien Devaux as well as a map of Alys's journey, photocollages, paintings, drawings, and a group of sculptures. Exhibited in part at The Israel Museum in Jerusalem in 2005. The film, which revisits the artist's 1995 work entitled The Leak, shows Alys carrying a dripping can of green paint along the armistice boundary that Moshe Dayan marked on a map with green pencil after Israel's War of Independence ended in 1948. The piece questions the physicality and cultural relevance of the Green Line, its function as a social and spiritual division in the city of Jerusalem, and its role in the Arab-Israeli conflict. With this work, Alys asks: Can an artistic intervention truly bring about an unforeseen way of thinking, or it is more a matter of creating a sensation of… Read More

VG condition softcover, clean and unmarked.
The first English language translation of the author's work, with a five-page introduction by the translator, 129 pp.

Near fine condition small softcover, clean and unmarked, 5.3" x 7.7", 117 pp. Rare English language translation.