Dani Jakubowski

Peer-reviewed publications

• "Provocative Acts and Censorial Revisions: The Many Antagonisms of Amal Kenawy's The Silence of the Lambs," African Arts 50, no. 4 (2017): 24–33.
• "Review," Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora and Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and its Diasporas, African Studies Quarterly 11, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 131–135.

Artist interviews

• "Moments of turmoil are daily latencies made visible: A conversation with Hassan Khan," Mada Masr, Sept. 2017.
• "Artifacts from humanity's failed futures: A conversation with artist Basim Magdy," Mada Masr, Feb. 2017.

Exhibition reviews

• "Wael Shawky's sculptural works bring the bizarre, violent world of his films into the present," Mada Masr, Aug. 2018.
• "Yasmine El Meleegy at Townhouse Gallery," Artforum International 56, no. 9, May 2018.
• "A conflict of urban imaginaries: Ahmed Mater explores a brutally changing city in Mecca Journeys," Mada Masr, Feb. 2018.

Editorial publications

• "Afruz Amighi at the Frist Center for the Arts," Critics' Picks, Artforum International, July 2018.
• "John Akomfrah: Sublime Seas at SFMOMA," Critics' Picks, Artforum International, July 2018.
• "Amalia Pica at the Power Plant, Toronto," Critics' Picks, Artforum International, Nov. 2017.
• "Jennifer Packer at the Renaissance Society, Chicago," Critics' Picks, Artforum International, Sept. 2017.

Invited lectures

• "Video, New Media, Institution – Cairo Video Festival Soft Closing," presented at Medrar Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, 2016.
• "Laura Baladi's Tower: Hope and Spatial Politics in Contemporary Cairo," alumni lecture presented at Oakland University, Auburn Hills, Mich., 2009.
• "A Study in Impurities: The Late Style of Philip Guston," presented at Oakland University, Auburn Hills, Mich., 2006.

Guest lectures

• "Lara Baladi's Utopian Toolkit: Digital Activism, Artistic Practice, and the Egyptian Arab Spring," presented at University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 2015.

Conference papers

• "The Utopia of the Grotesques: The Transnational Artistic Community of Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades," presented at College Art Association Annual Association, New York, 2017.
• "Sherif El-Azma, 'Video by the Kilo,' and Art Pedagogy in Contemporary Egypt," presented at the African Studies Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 2017.
• "From the Prison of the Chastity Belt to the Fires in the Untainted Sky: The Feminist Utopia of Lara Baladi’s Arab Spring," presented at Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 2017.
• "Lara's Digital Archive, or, Coming to Terms with Being a Late Capitalist, Partially Digital, but Fully Revolutionary Subject," presented at Marxist Reading Group Annual Conference, Gainesville, Fla., 2016.
• "Wael Shawky, the Traditions of the Qawwals, and the Mobile Habitat of the Mother Tongue," presented at HISTART '15, History of Art Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015.
• "Digital Assemblages: Ahmed Basiony's 30 Days Running in Place and the Politics of Self-Representation at the Venice Biennale," presented at African Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 2013.
• "Acoustic Thumbprints: Gender, Labor, and Urban Geography in the Sound Installations of Magdi Mostafa," presented at Southeastern College Art Conference, Greensboro, N.C., 2013.
• "The Easy Thing to Do: The Politics of Performativity in Egyptian Video Art," presented at Boston University African Studies Graduate Conference, Savannah, Ga., 2011.