{"product_id":"ibrahim-el-salahi-prison-notebook-9781633450554","title":"Ibrahim El-Salahi: Prison Notebook","description":"\u003cp\u003eSudanese artist, writer, critic, cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism. While serving as Sudan's Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison. During a period of house arrest that followed, he exorcised his experience in the \u003ci\u003ePrison Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e, an intensely personal work that is both a major historical document and a masterpiece of drawing, its pages filled with remarkable pen-and-ink drawings that demonstrate the artist's graphic mastery. This bilingual English-Arabic volume, published by The Museum of Modern Art and the Sharjah Art Foundation, comprises a facsimile of the \u003ci\u003ePrison Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e (recently acquired by MoMA); an English translation of its prose; a contextualizing essay by art historian Salah Hassan that addresses the social and political milieu in which it was produced; and contemporary commentary by the artist, captured in a recent interview.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Moma\/Sharjah Art Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50474502881554,"sku":"9781633450554","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a0dfb6c4-51ac-44f3-b274-4a7eea7d274c.jpg?v=1730222576","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ibrahim-el-salahi-prison-notebook-9781633450554","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}