March 2015. Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In the “modern” section of the fair, in a display case on the stand of the Meem gallery (Dubai), which is presenting works by the great Syrian artist, Marwan Kasab Bachi (1934-2016), I discover Issue No. 5 of the review Zamân (summer 2010), in which we published a comprehensive report on his life and work. Let’s hope that the review doesn’t turn into a fossil; I would rather it became a seashell. Four months later I would go to Berlin, where Marwan had been living since the 1950s, for an acquisition by the Tate Modern – his tribute portrait of the Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab (1965).