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Rania Matar is one of 4 finalists for the 2008 James and Audrey Foster Prize, the biennial award and exhibition program for Boston area artists at the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston. An exhibition of the four artists' work will be on view November 12, 2008 through March 1, 2009. Winner to be announced in January 2009.

A monograph of Rania Matar's work, titled "Ordinary Lives" with text by Anthony Shadid, will be published in Spring 2009.

"Rania Matar: Lebanon at the Crossroads," by Catherine Laferriere, appeared in Artscope Magazine's January-February 2008 Issue.

"Photographing the Human Spirit," by Scott Kearnan, appeared in the South End News on January 17, 2008.

"Finding Humanity Among Ruin," by Denise Taylor, appeared in the Boston Globe on September 13, 2007.