Since moving to the Netherlands, Siwars’ focus on language and multilingualism have been her driving force. In early 2021, she wrote two letters to her mother tongue, Arabic. This diary-like series responds to those two letters, documenting Siwars’ evolving relationship with the language since moving to the Netherlands, mainly as a testament to herself and a way of keeping her promise to the language.

Artist: Siwar Krai(y)tem
Title: Arabic is still in my quotidian, yes it is

Printer: KIOSK Rotterdam

Size: 10,5 x 29,7 cm
Number of Pages: 28
Print: RISO

Edition: 100



Arabic is still in my quotidian, yes its is. is part of the Publishing Dialogues series. With the Publishing Dialogues series we want to create a space for small scale experiments with texts and/or images. Not to publish a definitive, immutable object, but to make a suggestion. One that is open to improvement, revision, call-and-response, iteration, or even a full negation. Part of the series are text/works by: Annabelle Binnerts, Siwar Krai(y)tem, Eileen Ryan, and Alexander Roidl.