1. African Modernism: Beyond Alternative Modernities Discourse–Salah M. Hassan
2. The Densities of Modernism–Elizabeth Harney
3. The Art Society and the Making of Postcolonial Modernism in Nigeria–Chika Okeke-Agulu
4. The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art–Nada M. Shabout
5. Sites of Refuge: A Photo-essay from Three Works–Berni Searle
6. Ibrahim El Salahi and Calligraphic Modernism in a Comparative Perspective–Iftikhar Dadi
7. Exceeding Realism: Utopian Modern Art on the Nile and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar's Surrealistic Drawings–Avinoam Shalem
8. Modernity and Postcolonial Ambivalence–
Okwui Enwezor
Notes on Contributors