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Naso Art Journal - Issue 3

What do we inherit beyond names, places, and histories? What is carried forward through memory, gesture, language, and silence?   

'Before Us, With Us', the third issue of Naso Art Journal, gathers artists, written pieces and editorials that reflect on inheritance in its many forms: not as something fixed, but as something questioned, reimagined, resisted, and renewed. Moving between the personal and the collective, the works explore where we come from, what shapes us, and what we choose to carry into the future.

This issue invites readers to consider inheritance not only as a legacy of the past, but as an ongoing conversation unfolding in the present.

 

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Naso Art Journal is a MENA-focused independent publishing platform with an international outlook, dedicated to documenting, producing, and circulating contemporary artistic and cultural practices from the Arab world across global contexts.

At its core, Naso Art Journal functions as a long-term publishing project and living archive - addressing a critical absence in sustained, independent documentation of Arab artistic production across generations, geographies, and disciplines, while situating this work within broader international cultural and intellectual networks.

The journal also operates as a critical platform through which artistic practices from the region are not only presented, but structurally positioned within global art discourse. 

By prioritizing sustained publishing, research-driven writing, and durable cultural objects, Naso contributes to the long-term visibility and institutional legibility of MENA artists, supporting their ability to maintain meaningful and sustainable presence within the international art ecosystem beyond moments of exhibition, market circulation, or cultural trend.