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Bidoun: arts and culture from the Middle East
LABEL_RESOURCE_PUBINFO
Brooklyn NY 0
LABEL_RESOURCE_PUBLISHER
BIDOUN Inc.
LABEL_RESOURCE_COPYRIGHTYEAR
2004
LABEL_RESOURCE_SIZE
1(2004)-16(2009)
LABEL_RESOURCE_ISSN
1551-4048
LABEL_RESOURCE_SHELFMARK
J-Bido
LABEL_RESOURCE_PARTS
Profile: Colonizing Fantasy in Pursuit of a Unifying Gene - Amina Mansour
Going Public: The Development of Current Art Spaces in the Region
Dead Dogs, Mobile Sculptures, High Rise Portraits: A Decade of Public Art ...
The Transformer: Open Up the Walls in Your Head - Bidoun Meets the ...
more...
LABEL_RESOURCE_PARTS
Profile: Colonizing Fantasy in Pursuit of a Unifying Gene - Amina Mansour
Going Public: The Development of Current Art Spaces in the Region
Dead Dogs, Mobile Sculptures, High Rise Portraits: A Decade of Public Art ...
The Transformer: Open Up the Walls in Your Head - Bidoun Meets the ...
The video work of Hassan Khan
Breathing Room: Shirazeh Houshiary's Breath in Lower Manhattan
Navel Gazing: Mohammad Shirvani's first feature film is an intimate diary ...
BerlinBeirut: An interview with the lovely Myrna Maakaron
Head On: Turkish Delight; The winner of this year's Berlinale
From the Bronx to Beirut: A focus on hip hop from the Middle East
Meta Music: An interview with DJ Mutamassik
Beirut's CD-Theque
DJ Sharif shares a track list
Spotlight: Alwan for the Arts
Profile: The Atlas Group Opens its Archives - Walid Raad
Origins and Encounters: The mystical beauty of Arabic calligraphy
Calligraphy: An historical interlude - Encounters Between Civilizations
Fondation Arabe pour l'Image: The Art of Collecting Imagery
Collector's Diary: Iran
Collector's Diary: Mexico
Islamic Art at a Crossroads
Arab Prose at a Crossroads: Introduction
Jealousy and the Illness of Profession: Edward al-Charrat on Egypt's young ...
Smashing the Hero: Ghassan Zaqtan on young Palestinian writers
Thinking Fussha, feeling 'Amiya: between classical and colloquial Arabic
On having a take: Rosalind Nashashibi and Catherine Yass talk about making ...
Summer Film Festival Diary: Cannes, Paris, Ramallah
Cinema RIF - Cinémathèque de Tanger
Bab El Chams: Yousry Nasrallah's epic
Atash: Tawfik Abu-Wael's debut feature
Domestic Battlefields: Danielle Arbid on Maarek Hob
A Life Reconstructed: a lost musical legacy finds its voice in Cairo
Spotlight: Nasser Laham - journalist, translator, mediator
Shelf life - Archives and the Economics of Suspicion
Profile: An encounter with Natascha Sadr-Haghighian
From Trash Heap to Emerald Lung - The Aga Khan Trust's Ambitious Al Azhar ...
Architectural Reading Cairo's Al Azhar Park
The Forward Thrust of Christine Tohme
Lessons from the Boss - Lisa Farjam sits down with Tank's Masoud Golsorkhi
Streetmusic Arabe
Boy from Brazil - Bidoun meets Razi Barakat
Hair is for head-banging - A glance at Iran's metal scene
Little prince gets political
Fall Film Festival Diary
Kitsch and kitchen sink drama
I love cinema
Reviews: Beirut/RL Mapping the face of post-war Lebanon
Reviews: New York/USA Pinar Yolacan "Perishables"
Reviews: Frankfurt/De Ayse Erkman
Reviews: Geneve/Ch Ethnic Marketing
Reviews: Cairo/ET Form through light
Reviews: New York/USA Shooting elephants "Inconvenient evidence: Iraqi ...
Reviews: Shahzia Sikander
Reviews: Teheran/IR Reproduced image
Reviews: London/UK Hashem El Madani
Reviews: Amman/HKJ Meeting points
Reviews: Frankfurt/De Oriental rugs and...camels
Bonus Miles: The Case for Cosmopolitanism
Profile: I'll be your mirror: Loreta Bilinskaite-Burke
Profile: But Home: Tarek Al Ghoussein
Tropical Baroque: A Rough and Partial History of Popular Furniture
Establishment Unwound: UAE Arts
Slogans are walls that prevent misunderstanding: 2/5 BZ, aka Serhat Köskal
I'm Young and I need the Money: Eko Fresh, König von Deutschland
My Travels with Thomsun (or other ways I kept it real in old Dubai)
Film: Top Ten UAE box office 2004
Paradise Now: Interview with Hany Abou-Assad
Spring Film Festival Diary
Biennalicity redux: in conversation with Jack Persekian
Human rights as fetish
Work in Progress: Teelya - Artist Yasmeen Alawadi discovers some old ...
A morning at the United Nations: The museology of world peace
Paved with good intentions - Political opposition and the pitfalls of ...
Global Epidemic - Art in the age of globalization
Profile: David (inspired by Michelangelo) - Profile of artist Serkan ...
Aside from being wildly intelligent - Okwui Enwezor discusses the ...
I'm looking through you - On the slip of the icon
Thank God he wasn't French - Notes on Edward Said (1935-2003)
Edward Said II: The stupidest word - Christopher Hitchens discusses his ...
Private Devotion - The world of Googoosh's biggest fan
Two worlds, an automaton and a skyscraper - Remembering the revolutionary ...
The Yacoubian building - A drama of novel proportions
Yul Brynner - Hollywood's one-man melting pot
Ataturk - National rhetoric verses contemporary art in Turkey
The New Iraqi Flag: an exercise in identity manipulation
Settlement archaeology - Eyal Weizman in conversation with Markus Miessen
Javad Yasari - Second hand fridge salesman, singing legend of the Tehran ...
Shaaban: Egyptian gangsta rappa and improbable hero of the people
Political campaigns: The political economy of gloss
Bahram Afandizadeh talks to Negar Azimi about his photography studio at ...
Cat Stevens: The pop idol forgoes his fame for his faith
Islamic Chic: Religion hopping in the life of Michael Jackson
Music is kontagious: Turkish hip hop rolls deep in south London
The popular that is not pop: an album cover for the anxious
Stylistic Tourism: Pop's new orientalism
Summer Film Festival Diary: Instanbul, Cannes
Teheran as movie panorama: an iconography
Dances with wolves for muslims - Seeing the Islamic side of the crusades ...
There is art here, lower your voices - On art and its urban entourage
Mr. Lebanon: Anatomy of an icon
The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Cultural diplomacy under question: The State Department, arts and selling ...
Mehrnaz Afzali's The Red Card
Art as European invention - Can one (very large) exhibition stage the ...
At least there are no puppets - A profile of artist Wael Shawky
Pashmina Power: Class structure in international arts funding
Nuclear capabilities aside: The trickle-up politics of Ahmadinejad
Envy and luck: The bliss of ignorance
How can you listen to those bastards? - Conversations with Marxist ...
Remaking Hair in Georgia
Spoiled by the promise of brilliance: American universities in the Arab ...
He who eats alone chokes - The global mythology of the evil eye
Land of the seven scarves - The Kuchis, Afghanistan's nomads
Yesterday's Utopia: What can we learn by looking back at large-scale ...
Blocking the casbah: Le Corbusier's Algerian fantasy
Medinet Nasr - Unresolved amnesia, self-imagining and the marginal center
Super center - Life in Tehran's largest housing development
Instanbul's gated communities
Paul Chan on despotism, democracy and the fetish
Responding to war - ...while waiting for a work by Steve McQueen
Arabic typeface design now
Hysterical repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's A Perfect Day
The most fatal attraction - Kiarostami's "Close-up" revisited
Emotional fields
Profile: Mustafa Hulusi - That's Me in a Nutshell
Sight Seers - The spiritual quest of tourists and artists
State of the Arts Education - Art schools in Egypt today
Syria's National Museum - All the colors are original
The Pygmies Were Our Compass On the growing import of tourist guidebooks
The Rumblings of a Conscience - Eco/Ethno and the high cost of the ...
Going to Sea in a Sieve - Trade routes of the literary vernacular
On Good Deeds - Helper tourism and everyman humanitarianism
Never Forget to Remember - On disaster and tourism
Don't Let Me Go - Thoughts on kidnapping
Doing Business with the Business World - A company profile of ...
Redolent Delusions - Nasir al-Din Shah and the art of indifference
Cautious Radicals - Art and the invisible majority
Abu Symbol - Egypt's humpty dumpty history
In My Country, There is Problem - Borat vs. Kazakhstan
UNITYaiiight! - Ali G vs. Boutros Boutros Ghali
On Pirates, Statisticians and Cruise Ship Directors - A conversation with ...
Living Only Once - The Iranian road movie
Notes on Watching Syriana and Munich
Winter Film Festival Diary - Marrakech, Cairo, Dubai
With Friends Like These...Micheal Winterbottom's The Road to Guantanamo
Neither Sex, Nor Philosophy - Makhmalbaf reconsidered
Homo Sapiens Are What They Call Us - Eugene Hütz talks to Rootsman
Trascendental Ruckus - An interview with Hisham Bharoocha
Ethnographic Tales - Subjectivity = the new objectivity
Homi K. Bhabha with Tirdad Zolghadr - Our Homie is Homi K.
Dr. Saad Bashir Eskander with Deena Chalabi - After the fall
Anna Boghiguian and Robert Shapazian - There are clean smokers and there ...
Trevor Paglen and Thomas Keenan - Fog of wars
Rem Koolhaas with Markus Miessen - A refusal of obligatory extravagances
Eliana Benador with George Pendle - The gathering storm
Alaa Abd El Fattah with Ahdaf Soueif - Scraping the bottom of the pot
Rashid Masharawi, Buthina Canaan Khoury, Nahed Awwad, Hazim Bitar, ...
Orhan Pamuk with Lex ter Braak - Searching for Faulkner, in Turkey
Hans Ulrich Obrist with Nav Haq - On being the grandaddy of the art ...
Shahidul Alam and Naeem Mohaiemen - Outside the whale
Khalil Rabah with Mai Abu ElDahab - Mercurial museum
Elaine Scarry with Curtis Brown - Now, is that really true about Edward ...
Wayne Koestenbaum with Bruce Hainley - I was worried I'd have to amputate ...
Ahmed Alaidy and Mustafa Zikri - Notes on literary irreverence
Mohammed Fares with Hugh Macleod - Starman
Eyal Danon with Basak Senova - On trepassing
Ali-Reza Sami-Azar with Christopher de Bellaigue - Art and the Iranian ...
Eva Munz with Mauricio Guillen - Confucian simulations
Qualities, Being Hidden: John C. Welchman interviews Mike Kelley - On ...
Profile: Apples and beefsteaks - Introducing Cassius Al Madhloum
How one insignificant documentary can change the world - Iranian pop ...
Mkmael has just joined the room - Mahmoud Khaled's alias logs in to ...
Under-standing what you do - In between the public, the work, and the ...
Preemptive strike - Institutional self-censorship and religious sensitivity
Art Market - Frieze, Christie's, and the Dubai effect
On Failure - Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anton Vidokle, and Tirdad Zolghadr in ...
Are you there, God? - Fake memoirs and truth as style
If Dante had come with illustrations - Narges and the case of Iranian ...
Beyond the bling - London's nocturnal blues
I have a cheap plastic camera - Maurizio Cattelan meets Roman Ondák
Dancing the polka: Tall-tales in Tehran
The disenchanted - Archetypal intellectuals, devastated revolutionaries, ...
It's altaf your tailor, come to take your measurements - Sex and ...
Schoolgirls slowly falling to the ground - The phenomenon of collective ...
When they think of democracy they think of coca-cola - Soda as politick
The buck doesn't even slow down here - How the art world prospers by never ...
Automatic rumor - Networks of images, lives, and deaths
Mr Tom and Mrs Jerry - On Tahmineh Milani's Cease Fire
F**k the sun - A journey into Beirut's dark side
Film Festival Diary - Beirut, fall 2006
Space is the place - Debating the future of Martyrs Square
Step into the electric magnetic - Music pioneer Halim El-Dabh
The open secret
Gold Rush - Gulf/collectors/dealers/auctions/millions/museums
Conspiracy! - CIA/money/culture/schism/cake/indipendence
Kingdom of the dolls - History/lithium/cult/cardboard/legend/botox
Mohammed Al-Riffai - Mad science/sound sand/trnsformation/infinity/womb
Yoshua Okon - Desire/acting/delusion/types/Mexico/fetish
Profile: "Permission is a material and changes the works' consistency" - ...
Tropical malaise - Ethnographic/Holland/subversion/exotica/the real thing
Bidune - Frank Herbert/Donald Rumsfeld/intergalactic ...
Glory - Laptop/river road/USA for Africa/textese/forgotten vegetables/NGOs
Perfect sound forever - Microphone/Walt Disney/intimate/preservation/music
One life to live - Futurism/videogames/temporary autonomous ...
Imaginary gardens with real toads - ...
Going Dutch - Sex/Dutchness/immigration/liberty/DVD/friendly
Free love, funny costumes and a canal at Suez - ...
Doctor know - Knowledge/faith/Egyptian National ...
The blue Nile - Satellite/hostess/street/privacy/riddle/flirtation
Drill bits - Man/oil/isolation/depth/turbulence/pact
The Haggis Samosa - Orange juice/body-warmers/hyperliterate/indie/Ravi ...
Disorientalism - Flint, Michigan/musical brotherhoods/fair use/gypsy ...
Body tech - High school/popular/family/hunk/Kitsch
Gentleman's agreement: notes on Casino Royale - Gombrich/blockbuster/Tony ...
Lens flare - Tunisia/low-tech/comedy/Sundance/nostalgia
Winter Film Festival Review - Carthage, Marrakech, Cairo, Dubai
Chicago by Alaa Al Aswani
Reading "Legitimation Crisis in Tehran" by Danny Postel
The Kiwi - Thoughts on the House of World Cultures, Berlin
The Limits of Tolerance - A report from the lowlands of Europe
Chungking Mansions: Meta-hotel and micro-city
A Defense of Culture: The case of Palestine
Witness to Loss - Group Tuesday
Amateur Anthropology: Yael Bartana
Playing Prisoner's Dilemma - Inside the world of Sislej Xhafa
The Muse of Failure
Slow Speed - The long afternoon of underdevelopment
Collapsing Foundations
Mad Love
A portrait of the Jihadist as a White Negro
The Way of the Ostrich or How Not to Resist Modernity
A Dream Deterred
Building Blocs - Non-alignment as way of life
But we will live at all? - Naeem Mohaiemen in conversation with The ...
Dear Catastrophe Architect
The Magic Kingdom: The Story of the Story
Loud, Insistent and Dumb
Muslin Gaze
Film Festival Diary - Tehran, Berlin, Instanbul
Indie Blues
Make everything New: A Project on Communism
Tal'aat El Badan by Mos'aad Abu Fagr
Creative Reckonings: the Politics of Art and Culture in Egypt by Jessica ...
Sharing Ladders - Notes on the group show as format
The Presidential Gifts Museum - The Man with the Golden Guns
Igalo Institute - SPA of my fetishized heart
The Auction House
The Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanisme and Architecture
Goal! - Kaelen Wilson-Goldie on Ziad Antar
Plaque Beauty - Dominic Eichler on Shahryar Nashat
Baby one more time - Tom Morton on Saâdane Afif
Peace descending on the chariot of war
Paths of Glory
The Road to Wellville
Battle of Troy
In the Beginning There was Souffles (Baited Breaths)
The Fifth Element
Blessed Nimbus Churning
Ismail Yasin in the Nuthouse - The Millionaire
Ornament & Argument
Our lady of Hizbullah
Mingering Mike Superstar
No food, no drink, just muslims on TV - Little Mosque on the Prairie
The Secret of the Grain, redacted - La Graine et le Mulet
Annemarie Jacir on Amir Naderi's The Runner
This Necrophilic Strategy entails some risk - Bruce Hainley in ...
Reviews: 7UAE Contemporary Art - Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre - ...
Reviews: Jean-Luc Moulène Products of Palestine - Thomas Dane Gallery - ...
Reviews: Shirana Shahbazi Meanwhile - Swiss Institute - September 12 - ...
Reviews: Stalking with Stories - Apexart - September 19 - November 3, 2007
Reviews: 16th VideoBrasil - September 30 - October 25, 2007
Reviews: The FM ferry experiment - Staten Island Ferry - September 2007
Reviews: The seasons of Tell-Al Hejara: a Syrian neighborhood between ...
Reviews: How Nancy wished that everything was an April fool's joke - ...
Reviews: 10th Istanbul biennal - September 8 - November 4, 2007
Reviews: Contour 2007 - August 18 - October 21, 2007
Reviews: Riwaq biennale - Birzeit University and other venues - October ...
Reviews: Port City: On mobility and exchange - Arnolfini - September 15 - ...
Reviews: London is the place for me - Rivington Place - October 3 - ...
The Anatomy of Melancholy: Cairo's lost agricultural museum
Art Market: Made in India
The Molotov Pigeon: Abbas Akhavan
Weather Report: Christodoulos Panayiotou
Riding Modern Art: Raphaël Zarka
Monument X: Tarek Zaki
Profile: Perfect mute forever - Rosalind Nashashibi
Super-Jew & the Apostles of funk - Alex Gartenfeld talks to Chromeo's ...
The Sweltering Sky - Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
The Archive - Ken Okiishi on Georges Perec's - Un Homme Qui Dort
The Decline of Middle Eastern Civilization - Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Reviews: New York/Archive fever - International Center Photography - ...
Reviews: Barcelona/Bahman Jalali at Tàpies - Fundació Antoni Tàpies - ...
Reviews: New York/ If/ Then - Carey Young - New York Paula Cooper Gallery ...
Reviews: Cairo/ What's happening now? - Palace of Arts - December 9, 2007 ...
Reviews: The Hague/Green Zone/Red Zone - Gemak October 20,2007 - January ...
Reviews: Boston/Sleeping from memory - Kader Attia - Institute of ...
Reviews: Alexandria, Amman, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Damascus, El ...
Reviews: New York/Enrichment - Nina Katchadourian - Sara Meltzer Gallery - ...
Reviews: Montreal/ Sorry, Out of Gas - Canadian Centre for Architecture - ...
Reviews: Dubai/Life drawing: approches to figurative practices by Ghadah ...
Tashkeel
Tehran Roundtable
Not Being There - Nairy Baghramian
Stammer - Shady El Noshokaty
The Three Disappearances of Souad Hosni - Rania Stephan
Production Notes - Natascha Sadr Haghighian
The Big Sleep - Taj Mahal Hotel
The Splendor of Tat - The Pitt Rivers Museum
Thirty-one Flavors of Death - Ice Cream, Horror Porn & The Idea of Pakistan
Beauty as The Beast
The toughest man in Cairo Vs The Zionist vegetable
Twilight of The Iron Sheik
Empathy for the devil - The suicide of Aznavorian has nothing to do with ...
Rocking the cradle of civilization
Agropolis Now
Driving Miss Deneuve - Je veux voir
Tripping the light fascistic - Waltz with Bashir
The Archive - The cruel sea - Omar Amiralay in conversation with Rasha ...
Exhibitions: A Principle of Assumptions Istanbul - Rodeo Gallery April 17- ...
Exhibitions: Art Now in Lebanon Amman - Dart Al-Funun March 4-June 5, 2008
Exhibitions: Ali Chitsaz Tehran - Golestan Gallery April 25-May 1, 2008
Exhibitions: Hekaya - Ayman Ramadan Cairo - Townhouse Gallery of ...
Exhibitions: I Dream of the Stans - New Central Asian Video New York - ...
Exhibitions: Ass-As-Sin--Hashish Anyone?-Tala Madani New York ...
Exhibitions: The Anxious Five Artists Under The Pressure of War - Paris - ...
Exhibitions: Wish You Were Here Jeffar Khaldi -Dubai- B21 Gallery May ...
Exhibitions: This is that place - Mitra Tabrizian - London - Tate Britain ...
Exhibitions: Anna Boghiguian - Cairo - Safar Khan Gallery April 23-May 23, ...
Exhibitions: Home works IV Various Venues - Beirut - April 12-20, 2008
Exhibitions: The new normal artists space - New York - April 26-June 21, ...
Exhibitions: Immaterial world Nadim Asfar - Beirut - Galerie Tanit April ...
Insitute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults ...
Beirut 1979 - La galerie qui bouge
Arabic as a second language
Pow Wow Wow
Too much posse? - Selim Varol, The Toy Giant
Moving Target Shahab Fotouhi
Profile: Slavs & Tartars - I often dream of Slavs
Children of War: Beirut
Children of War: Kuwait
Children of War: Bagdad
Sweet Sixteen
Somewhere over the rainbow
Harry Potter and the Rim of Fire
Solid Gold
His Dark Materials
Oshin's Forelock
The Education of Lee Boyd Malvo
Vegan Jhad - A Conversation with Sean Muttaqi
Exhibitions: Cold War Modern - London - Victoria & Albert Museum - ...
Exhibitions: Human Conditions - Istanbul - Istanbul Modern - September ...
Exhibitions: Buckminster Fuller - New York City - The Whitney Museum OF ...
Exhibitions: Roads Were Open / Roads Were Closed - Dubai- The Third Line - ...
Exhibitions: Walid Raad - A History of Modern & Contemporary Arab Art - ...
Exhibitions: Taipei Biennial 2008 - Taipei - September 13, 2008-January 4, ...
Exhibitions: Facing - Paris - GB Agency - October-November, 2008
Exhibitions: Jerusalem Show Edition 0.1 - Jerusalem - Al-Ma'Mal Foundation ...
Exhibitions: Yael Bartana - New York City - PS1 Contemporary Art Center - ...