Fehras Publishing Practices is a collective founded by Sami Rustom, Omar Nicolas and Kenan Darwich that was established in 2015. It’s a space for knowledge, exchange of experiences and collective work. They research the history and presence of publishing and its entanglements in socio-political and cultural sphere in the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Arab Diaspora. They focus on the relationship between publishing and art historiography and explore the role of translation as a tool of cultural domination, solidarity and deconstructing colonial powers. Fehras’s practice comes through studying archival material such as books, magazines, photographs, memoirs, letters, contemporary art publications, libraries of authors, translators, book vendors as well as radio, television, cinema and digital archives. They take this archival material and re-situate them by placing them in different spatial and temporal contexts. Working in different media, from installations to video works, books/publications and lecture performances they tackle current day concerns such as gender, collectivity, identity, migration, notions of independency, funding and institutions.