Resonant Histories: India and the Arab World

Contents: Foreword/Cyrus J. Guzder.  Preface/Puja Vaish, Suheyla Takesh, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. Exhibition Views. 1. A Young Boy’s Journey from Sharjah to Bombay/Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi. 2. Between Cairo and Delhi: Egyptian Women Artists and Afro-Asian Solidarities/Nadine Nour el Din. 3. To Grasp One’s Entire Heritage: Nasreen Mohamedi: Abstraction Across Continents/Puja Vaish. 4. Ali Hassan: An Egyptian Artist’s Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi/Patrick Kane. 5. Makers of Cities: Mohammed Kazem’s Dubai and Sudhir Patwardhan’s Mumbai/Vivek Gupta. 6. Inside to Outside: A Conversation with Emirati Artist Dr Mohamed Yousif/Neha Vora. 7. Munira Alkazi: Meditations on the Female Self/Amal Allana. 8. The Right to Not Mind My Own Business/Curator Iaroslav Volovod in Conversation with Artist Vikram Divecha. 9. Confronting the Void/Curator Suheyla Takesh in Conversation with Artist Jafar Islah. 10. From the Arab World to India: Tracing Trade, Culture and the Movement of People Over Time/Rasha Alduwaisan. 11. Kisumu: Balan K Menon, as told to Karuna Nandan. 12. Simmering (Un)Pleasantries That Bind Us (1962 & 2024)/Bhoomika Ghaghada. Artworks.

Resonant Histories is an invitation to revisit encounters between India and the Arab world in the 20th century that continue to shape artistic and intellectual discourse today. By bringing the collections of the Barjeel Art Foundation and the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation into dialogue, the project aims to situate artistic practice within broader transnational frameworks of exchange and mutual influence. This publication explores the story of modern art as not a singular narrative, but a network of voices shaping one another across time and place.