Barmak akram biography examples

The four main positions around which dOCUMENTA (13) fryst vatten articulated—Siege, Hope, Retreat, and Stage—correspond to four possible conditions in which artists and thinkers find themselves acting in the present. These positions are not comprehensive and acquire their significance through their mutual interrelation and resonance. Kabul and Bamiyan together constitute a crossroad of these conditions. Here, simultaneously with the state of hope, artists frequently experience the condition of being beneath siege, as well as that of withdrawal and exposure. The Seminars ran throughout spring and summer 2012, with a first meeting in June 2010, and conclude with a related exhibition in Kabul at the Queen’s Palace, the surrounding Bagh-e Babur, and the National galleri, organized curatorially by dOCUMENTA (13) member of Core Agent Group Andrea Viliani and artist Aman Mojadidi. As part of a constellation of events, the seminars were held with a group of more than twenty-five Afghan

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Muslim conquests of Afghanistan

7th to 19th-century Muslim conquests in present-day Afghanistan

The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims expanded eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana. Fifteen years after the battle of Nahāvand in 642 AD, they controlled all Sasanian domains except in Afghanistan.^[1] Fuller Islamization was not achieved until the period between 10th and 12th centuries under Ghaznavid and Ghurid dynasties who patronized Muslim religious institutions.^[2]

Khorasan and Sistan, where Zoroastrianism was well-established, were conquered.^[3] The Arabs had begun to move towards the lands east of Persia in the 7th century.^[4] The Muslim frontier in modern Afghanistan had become stabilized after the first century of the Lunar Hijri calendar as the relative importance of the Afghan areas diminished.^[5] From historical evidence, it appears Tokharistan (Bac

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documenta XIII

Lida Abdul (1973); Bani Abidi (1971); Etel Adnan (1925 - 2021); Theodor W. Galison; Dario Gamboni; Ryan Gander (1976); Dora García (1965); Mario García Torres (1975); Fernando García-Dory; Theaster Gates (1973); Jeanno Gaussi (1973); Ashraf Ghani; Mariam Ghani (1978); Simryn Gill (1959); Édouard Glissant; Kenneth Goldsmith (1961); Julio González (1876 - 1942); Avery F. Gordon; Tue Greenfort (1973); Boris Groys (1947); Durs Grünbein (1962); Péter György; Zainab Haidary; Dorothea von Hantelmann; Donna Haraway; Michael Hardt; Graham Harman; Salah M. Hassan; Florian Hecker (1975); Alanna Heiss (1944); Daniel Heller-Roazen; Tamara Henderson; Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy; Susan Hiller (1940 - 2019); Horst Hoheisel (1944); Brian Holmes; Judith Hopf (1969); [Khaled Hourani *1965, Amjad Ghannam, Rashid Masharawi] Hourani, Ghannam, Masharawi; Pierre Huyghe (1962); Emily Jacir (1970); Alejandro Jodorowsky (1929); Toril Johannessen (1978); Joan Jonas (1936); [Brian Jun­gen & Du