Edge of Arabia and Art Jameel were proud to be a main partner of FotoFest 2014, the 15th International Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art. The Biennial is the longest-running international photographic festival in the United States. This year's focus was on Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Multi Media art and lead curator, Karin Adrian von Roques described it as “the largest presentations to date of contemporary Arab photography and mixed media art in America.”

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Arabophobia: A Scholar, a Poet and a Visual Artist Respond: This is a recording of an event held on April 2 in conjunction with FotoFest's 2014 Biennial. This event was held by FotoFest in collaboration with The Humanities Research Center and the James A. Baker III for Public Policy.

• 275,000 people from 43 countries attended or participated in 2014 Biennial programs in Houston, Texas over the course of the Festival's six weeks
• 123 million people were reached by editorial media coverage of the FotoFest Biennial (online, print, radio and TV) in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Canada and the United States
• 1,159 artists participated and exhibited in the Biennial. They came from 40 countries and 37 US states.
• 130 art and civic spaces across Houston, Harris County, Galveston, Sugar Land, Katy, Kingwood, and surrounding communities participated in the Biennial. They presented over 100 events in addition to their own exhibitions.
• 200 events were produced by FotoFest and Participating Spaces alongside exhibitions over the Festival's six-week schedule.
• 49 leading Arab artists were featured in FotoFest's main Arab exhibition, VIEW FROM INSIDE. Seventeen of the exhibiting Arab artists and twenty-five Arab curators, art critics, scholars, and gallery owners attended the Biennial in Houston. FotoFest, with Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, published an accompanying book which is available internationally. Arab programs included films, concerts, poetry readings, concerts, artist talks, conferences on Arab culture.
• 19 schools have used the new Arab curriculum, designed by FotoFest's Literacy Through Photography in-school education program, to engage with the cultures and history of the Middle East and North Africa.