Publications
Books
2024
Camels from Saudi Arabia
Assouline · ParisA scholarly art book tracing the camel as cultural icon — through poetry, art, myth, and landscape. Original photography with historical and anthropological essays.
2025
أرضنا — Our Land
AlObeikan · RiyadhVolume I of the Homeland Collection. Archival and contemporary photographs of the Saudi landscape and its layered histories.
2025
شعبنا — Our People
AlObeikan · RiyadhVolume II. Photographs documenting the people of the Arabian Peninsula across generations.
2025
ممتلكاتنا — Our Belongings
AlObeikan · RiyadhVolume III. Material culture, textiles, and objects — the things that carry memory and identity.
لا تنسون — La Tansoon
A documentary Arabic podcast exploring Saudi visual heritage through archival photographs and close reading. Each episode takes a single image as its starting point, tracing the histories, people, and questions it opens up. Created and hosted by Ghada AlMuhanna Abalkhail.
Narratives in Video Games
AlManwar · RiyadhVideo games as cultural contexts integrating storytelling heritage and inherited characters — and the implications for regional literary and artistic identity.
Echoes of Expression
Shifting Sands: A Battle Song — Saudi Pavilion, Venice BiennaleOn the overlooked visual presence of Saudi women in debates on gender, memory, and archival representation in Gulf contemporary art.
The Arab Visual Identity
Ithra Editions · DammamOn visual markers — dress, features, cultural symbols — as mediators of belonging and stereotype in contemporary representations of Arab identity.
Narrative Photography as a Tool to Promote Tourism
AlManwar · RiyadhArguing that narrative — not aesthetic image quality — is the more effective variable in building tourist imagination.