This booklet serves as a compact guide to the exhibition What is not by artist Khalil Rabah, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation. Including works created from the 1990s to the present, the exhibition proposed speculative frameworks and platforms for exploring how cultural institutions, curatorial practice, museological discourse and critical knowledge operate under long-standing states of emergency and displacement. What is not also offered an overview of the artist’s ongoing projects, including the Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind (1995–2025), the Riwaq Biennale (2003–2018), Scale Models and Collaborations: by in form (2010–present), a new project commissioned by the Foundation.

The booklet includes a Foreword by Al Qasimi.