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Rasha Salti

writer, researcher, art and film curator

Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti co-founded the History of Arab Modernities in the Visual Arts Study Group, a platform for research into the social history of art in the Arab world. They also co-wrote the essay “Beirut’s Musée Imaginaire: The promise of modernity in the age of mechanical reproduction”. Their current project, Past Disquiet, a long-term research project begun in 2008 and transformed into a documentary and archival exhibition in 2015. Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti also co-edited “Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, and Museums in Exile”, published by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2018).