Publication //
Omar’s writing has regularly appeared (or is forthcoming) in: The Guardian, Art Monthly, Frieze, Film International, Wired UK, Scope:Film&TV Journal, The Advocate, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, Product Magazine, Variety Arabia, Contemporary Practices, Push It Magazine, PopMatters, What’s On Stage , Transnational Cinemas, Orange Music/Somethin’ Else Productions, Primer , MTV/Open Door Productions, Butt, The Glasgow Film Theatre, Liverpool University Press, and has been quoted and interviewed in The Daily Telegraph, the BBC (Print and Broadcast), and Resonance FM, amongst many others. Omar is also an editor of Portal 9, a journal of critical writing of art and the city, published in Beirut, Lebanon.
selected writing //
Art Monthly
Kraftwerk by Omar Khoeif (May 2012)
Arab Agendas, by Omar Kholeif (Issue 353) (February 2012)
Judith Barry Interview by Omar Kholeif (December/January 2011/2012)
Roy Ascott, by Omar Kholeif (November 2011)
Wael Shawky, by Omar Kholeif (May 2011)
Performing the Self, by Omar Kholeif (February 2011) (Issue 343)
Julian Rosefeldt, by Omar Kholeif (November 2010) (Issue 341)
Unsettled Objects, by Omar Kholeif (October 2010) (Issue 340)
Arabicity: Such a Near East, by Omar Kholeif (September 2010) (Issue 339)
Contemporary Art Iraq, by Omar Kholeif, (June 2010) (Issue 337)
MyWar, by Omar Kholeif, (June 2010) (Issue 336)
Ibraaz
The Social Impulse: Politics, Media and Art After the Arab Uprisings, by Omar Kholeif, Ibraaz
Film International
A Time To Love & A Time To Die, by Omar Kholeif, Film International, 2010
Derek Jarman’s Angelic Conversations, by Omar Kholeif, Film International, 2010
Danton, by Omar Kholeif, Film International (Issue: 7.5, 2009)
Andy Warhol: Blow Job (Gidal, Peter), by Omar Kholeif, Film International, 2010
Real Queer Arabs, Film International, (Issue: No.1 2010).
Edinburgh Film Festival Report 2009 & British Film’s Identity Crisis by Omar Kholeif, Film International, 2009.
Liverpool Arabic Film Festival 2011, Interview with Omar Kholeif, Film International, 2011
The Guardian
The New Guard of Arab Film, by Omar Kholeif The Guardian, July, 2011
The Arts Need Diversity Schemes, Comment is Free, August 2010
No Social Justice For Glasgow’s Art? by Omar Kholeif, 2009
Contemporary Practices
The Short and Long of It, by Omar Kholeif, Contemporary Practices, 2011
FACT/Nikolaj CCAC
Vision, Memory and Media, eds. Andreas Broegger and Omar Kholeif, Liverpool/Chicago University Press, 2010
Frieze
On the Edgware Road, by Omar Kholeif, 2012
Larissa Sansour: The Nation Estate, by Omar Kholeif, 2012
Postcard from Sharjah, by Omar Kholeif, 2012
Rashid Rana, Everything is Happening at Once, by Omar Kholeif, 2012
Foud Elkoury, Be…longing, by Omar Kholeif, 2011
The People are Demanding, by Omar Kholeif, 2011
Raising Dust, by Omar Kholeif, 2011
Future Movements Jerusalem by Omar Kholeif, 2010
Unrealised Potential, Cornerhouse, Manchester, Frieze, Summer, 2010.
Sight & Sound
Egypt’s Revolutions on Film, by Omar Kholeif, July 2011.
Scope
Screening Egypt: Reconciling Egyptian Film’s Place in “World Cinema“ by Omar Kholeif (2008-2010), published February 2011
Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, Memory, by Omar Kholeif, Scope (October 2010)
Transnational Cinemas
Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus by Omar Kholeif, Transnational Cinemas, Volume 1: Number 2
Jadilyya
Art and Subversion: An Interview with Omar Kholeif, Jadilyya, 2012
PopMatters
10th Anniversary Feature: From CD to MP3: The Degradation of Music Curating, Pop Matters, 2009
Special Feature: This is England: Reconciling British Identity (WARP ANNIVERSARY), PopMatters, 2010
Review: Norah Jones: …Featuring, PopMatters, 2010
Review: Christina Aguilera: Bionic, PopMatters, 2010
Review: You, The Living (Andersson), by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Re-Examination: Girl, Interrupted (again), by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Review: Athlete: Singles, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2010
Review: The Essential Dixie Chicks, PopMatters, 2010
Florence Welsh Brings Art Rock Back to the Masses, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2010
Review: Laura Nyro: Mother’s Spiritual, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Spotlight Review: Paper Planes: Doris Day (Single), by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Retro Review: Hole – Pretty On The Inside, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Analysis: Gaga for Fame, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Review: Fiona Apple, Tidal, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Analysis: Art Portraiture in Six Feet Under, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Review: Jeff Buckley, Grace Around The World, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Review: Patti Smith, Peace and Noise, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009.
Preview: Abbas Kiarostami’s ‘Shirin’, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009
Feature Review: Revisiting Miranda July’s ‘Me and You and Everyone We Know’, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2010
Preview: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, by Omar Kholeif, PopMatters, 2009.
Orange
Album Review: Benjamin Taylor, The Legend of Kung Folk: Pt 1, Orange Music, by Omar Kholeif, 2009.
Live Review: Manic Street Preachers, Orange Music, by Omar Kholeif, 2009.
What’s On Stage
Theatre Review: Moby Dick (Touring – Liverpool), What’s On Stage (North West), 2009
Theatre Review: LA Traviata (Tour – Liverpool), What’s On Stage (North West), 2009
Theatre Review: Love Letters Straight From Your Heart, What’s On Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Coverage, 2009
Theatre Review: Janis, What’s On Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Coverage, 2009
Theatre Review: Eurotrash, What’s On Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Coverage, 2009
Theatre Review: Party, What’s On Stage, Edinburgh Fringe Coverage, 2009
Theatre Review: Le Grand Cirque – Fantazie, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: The Art of Swimming, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Vision/Aria, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: The Angel and The Woodcutter, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Dreamboats and Petticoats, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Hear Me, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Only When I Laugh, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Theatre Review: Year of the Horse, What’s On Stage, 2009.
Wired
La chambre des machines cause electro-acoustic resonance, by Omar Kholeif, 2012
Primer Magazine
Ten Film Guaranteed to End Your Relationship, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009.
Ten Date Movies Worth Revisiting, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009
The Best Short Films: Pretentious Art or Popular Audience Fare, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009.
Film Review: In The Loop, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009
Low Budget Films, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009.
A Guide To Self Improvement Blogs, by Omar Kholeif, Primer Magazine, 2009.
Note: Print materials, may be requested by contacting the author directly.