Morad Montazami is an art historian, publisher, and curator. After serving at Tate Modern between 2014 and 2019 as a research curator focused on art from the Middle East and North Africa, he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zamân Books & Curating to explore Arab, African, and Asian modernism and postcolonial art history. He has published numerous essays on artists including Zineb Sedira, Walid Raad, Mohamed Melehi, Faouzi Laatiris, Michael Rakowitz, Mehdi Moutashar, and Behjat Sadr, and curated, among other projects, Casablanca Art School (Tate St-Ives/Sharjah Art Foundation/Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2024) and Présences Arabes. Art moderne et décolonisation: Paris, 1908–1988 (Musée d’art moderne de Paris, 2024).
The annual Asilah Cultural Moussem, an international festival held in northern Morocco, was cofounded in 1978 by Mohamed Benaïssa and Mohamed Melehi in collaboration with Toni Maraini and Al Muhit Cultural Association. It served as a significant postcolonial cultural platform, involving activists from the Casablanca Art School and artists from Africa, the Arab world, Asia,…
