The Girl Who Fell to Earth(1st Edition) A Memoir by SophiaAl-Maria Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2012 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-06-199975-8, ISBN: 0-06-199975-X
" When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband's desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. What her mother doesn't know is that there are some things about growing up that are universal. In Qatar, Sophia is faced with a new world she'd only imagined as a child. She sets out to find her freedom, even in the most unlikely of place ..."
"This book is a tapestry of thoughts, concerns and emotions devised in response to the exhibition and its themes, with contributions from writers, academics and artists, and co-edited by the curators."
"The latest in The Happy Hypocrite series, Fresh Hell is a rush of full-bleed film stills,war-games images, oil industry pamphlets and sexually explicit female imageryinterspersed with interviews, illustrated stories and provocative writings addressingdirectly and indirectly the subject of oil. Guest editor Qatari-American artist/writerSophia Al-Maria s archiving acts as a sort of proto-Tumblr. Adopting an explodedintake methodology, thi ..."
"Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every cu ..."
"A fascinating collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers.Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; savaging our bodies, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. Some have called them genies: these are the Djinn. And they are e ..."
"Hey'ya exhibition was originated in Qatar, at the Arab Games' Athletes Village in December 2011, where renowned photographer Brigitte Lacombe and documentary film-maker Marian Lacombe, with the support of Qatar's Aspire programme, set up an outdoor studio, working side by side with female athletes. After that, they travelled to 20 different Arab countries to document images and videos of 70 Arab sportswomen.
QMA commissioned the proje ..."
"Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures."
"Translated By is published to coincide with an exhibition at the AA, which gathers eleven literary writers and eleven literary places and subjects them to an act of immaterial translation - via the voice.
The stories run through Ramallah, recollect turn-of-the-century Sofia, remember the spaceship-looking-Sheraton Hotel in Doha, wander through the 'Metaverse' and end at the end of the world in West Vancouver. Each of the authors invent ..."
"In today's Britain thousands of people have parents from different cultural backgrounds. In February 2008 we asked for people from any background to send us true stories which illuminate the complexities, challenges and joys of having a mixed heritage - those defining moments which seem to say it all. Then we asked six judges - including the novelist Kate Mosse and Shami Chakrabati from Liberty - to choose the best, most searching accou ..."
"This two volume set includes titles by artist Sophia Al-Maria and curator Omar Kholeif to accompany the exhibition Virgin with a Memory at Cornerhouse, Manchester, 6 September - 2 November 2014.Composed of the novelisation of the script for ..."
Sad Sack SophiaAl-maria Collected Writing by SophiaAl-Maria Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by Book Works ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-82-3, ISBN: 1-906012-82-2
"'Sad Sack' is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guins 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction; opposing the linear, progressive, Times-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic. Encompassing more than a decade of work, 'Sad Sack' tracks Al-Marias speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ""premature"" memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ..."
Prelude Ausst. Kat. LUMA Arles, 2021/22 by SophiaAl-Maria Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2021 by Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2021-08-30, Cologne ISBN-13: 978-3-7533-0031-3, ISBN: 3-7533-0031-4
"Prélude explores and addresses the idea of multiple ecologies. It offers ways of looking at ecological structures and systems as assemblages and as processes."
The Girl Who Fell To Earth (Arabic Edition) by SophiaAl-Maria, Ziad Ziady Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2015 by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing ISBN-13: 978-9927-101-91-5, ISBN: 9927-101-91-0
"When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband's desert-dwelling Bedouin family in Qatar, she intends it to be a sort of teenage cultural boot camp. What her mother doesn't know is that there are some things about growing up that are universal. In Qatar, Sophia is faced with a new world she'd only imagined as a child. She sets out to find her freedom, even in the most unlikely of places ..."
"Margaret McFall-Ngai, “Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of
Hawai'i at Manoa,” http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/index.php/margaret-mcfall-ngai.
Jeffrey Gordon, “Gordon Lab,” https://gordonlab.wustl.edu/; Sarkis Mazmanian, ..."