Essays: Contemporary art in the Middle East / Nat Muller -- Minding the gap: migration, diaspora, exile and return in women's visual media / Lindsey Moore -- Desire in diaspora / TJ Demos -- The documentary turn: surpassing tradition in the work of Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari / Suzanne Cotter -- Artists: Shirin Aliabadi -- Youssef Nabil -- Osama Esid -- Laila Muraywid -- Khosrow Hassanzadeh -- Afshan Ketabchi -- Shirin Neshat -- Lalla Essaydi -- Annabel Daou -- Nja Mahdaoui -- Monir Farmanfarmaian -- Parvis Tanavoli -- Malihen Afnan -- Golnaz Fathi -- Neda Dana Haeri -- Ahlam Lemseffer -- Wijdan Ali -- Ghada Amer -- Fereydoun Ave -- Ayad Alkadhi -- Sara Rahbar -- Laila Shawa -- Farhad Moshiri -- Shadi Ghadirian -- Mona Hatoum -- Babak Radboy -- Arwa Abouon -- Barbad Golshiri -- Mounir Fatmi -- Marwan Rechmaoui -- Yto Barrada -- Hassan Darsi -- Afshin Dehkordi -- Hrair Sarkissian -- Yehudit Sasportas -- Dani Karavan -- Lida Abdul -- Hilda Hiary -- Amal Kenawy -- Doa Aly -- Mohammed Al Shammarey -- Fauisal Samra -- Shirana Shahbazi -- Haleh Anvari -- Tarek Al Ghoussein.