Things Bigger Than What Can Be Seen (Archive Books 2026) is a collection of Oraib Toukan’s essays, translated to Arabic for the first time. In close dialogue with Palestinian pedagogue Munir Fasheh on the topic of turbeh (local soil in Arabic), Toukan crafts a haptic perspective on images from what she terms their ‘soil grain’.
About the speakers
Oraib Toukan works across photography, film, and printed matter to explore alternative, vernacular understandings of images, often drawing on the lexicon of the Arabic language. Toukan is also a writer and scholar pursuing a research-based project at EUME, Berlin.
Yazid Anani is a senior curator at Art Jameel, Jeddah. He was head curator and director of public programmes at the A. M. Qattan Foundation Ramallah 2016–24. Anani was also a professor at the Birzeit University Department of Architecture and the Master's Programme in Urban Planning and Landscape between 2007–2016.
