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Walid Raad

Born - Lebanon

Walid Raad grew up in Lebanon and now lives and works in the U.S. His works include textual analysis and video and photography projects, and concentrate on the Lebanese civil wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and documentary theory and practice. His videoworks include Up To The South (with Jayce Salloum), and the recently completed collection of video shorts titled, The Dead Weight of Quarrel Hangs. His photography projects include The Beirut Archive—an ongoing documentary photography project of post-civil war Beirut. Walid is also a member of the Arab Image Foundation, started in 1996 to promote historical research of the visual culture of the Arab world, and to promote experimental video production in the region. 

Alpert Award for Visual Arts 2007 from the Herb Alpert Foundation

Hasselblad Award Winner 2011

 

Artist Collection List

Title Year Runtime Collection
Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English Version) 2001 16 minutes 17 seconds Single Titles
Radical Closure 2010 5 hours 36 minutes 57 seconds Box Sets, Curated Compilations
Radical Closure, Program 1: The Captives 2010 1 hour 29 minutes 2 seconds Curated Compilations
Sandwiched Between Trauma and Apocalypse: history as it intersects with biography and the rewriting of the past 2017 1 hour 14 minutes 55 seconds Compilations, Curated Compilations
Talaeen a Junuub (Up to the South) 1993 1 hour Single Titles
The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs 1999 16 minutes 54 seconds Single Titles
VDB TV: Decades 2017 7 hours 47 minutes 37 seconds Box Sets, Compilations, Curated Compilations