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In addition to literature, film, music and installation, he has also embarked on architectural projects, such as the Al Jazeera headquarters in Doha where he produced drawings and worked with civil engineers to design this structure.  War, terrorism, pollution and ecology are just some of the topics that are filtered through his work. The central display structure of the exhibition &#8211; the rope &#8211; evokes Duchamp&#8217;s <i>Twine<\/i> (1942), which is here re-purposed into the precarious connecting device that holds each element together. As is always present within Obaidi&#8217;s work, however, connection and unity has the potential to be broken through war and its capacity to segregate and isolate. 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