The Sharjah Art Foundation has announced four recipients of its second Focal Point Publishing Grant. Selected from more than 100 submissions following an international open call, the winners - Ali Essafi, Ridha Moumni, Gabriella Nugent and hakara - will share a total of $27,000 to support research projects in the Long-Form Essay and Publication Reprint categories. To be completed over the course of the coming year, the projects will be published by Sharjah Art Foundation and presented at future editions of the art book fair Focal Point. In line with the overarching theme of Sharjah Biennial 15 (due to open in spring 2022), which is highlighted in its title—Thinking Historically in the Present—the grant’s open call was directed towards supporting art historical research focusing on global modernism in the Measa (Middle East, Africa and South Asia) region.