“To regard land is to gaze at it intently, to contemplate the catastrophic frameworks that govern humanity’s maltreatment of our shared habitat. To regard land is to pay tribute to, and to respect and commemorate, the terrains that sustain us. To regard land is to recalibrate our optics, to rediscover how intertwined our lives are with the ground beneath our feet—this frail floating rock we call home.”

Exhibition: “Regarding Land,” group exhibition (featuring Jumana Emil Abboud, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Marwa Arsanios, Monira Al Qadiri, Younès Ben Slimane, Ali Cherri, Nada El-Omari, Batoul Faour, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Hiwa K, Nour Ouayda, Reman Sadani, Nadia Shihab, and Huda Takriti), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax NS, 19 September – 23 November, 2025.

Keywords: curatorial practice, exhibition, video, film, moving image, lens-based, media, art, contemporary, resistance, solidarity, allyship, challenging, problematic, reductive, stereotypes, representations, critical, criticality, belonging, identity, memory, history, plural, diverse, multicultural, diaspora, immigrant, refugee, communities, society, land, terrains, territories, landscapes, ancestral homelands, geography, topography, ecology, environment, displacement, exile, migrations, colonial, colonialism, Egypt, Kuwait, Kurdistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Tunisia, Yemen, Southwest Asia (”Middle East”), North Africa, SWANA, Arab, Arabic speaking, world, region, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Image: Amin Alsaden