Bidoun magaizne issue 2
Walid Raad and The Atlas Group, Huda AbiFares, Foundation Arabe pour L’Image, Fouad Elkoury, Edwar al-Charrat, Ghassan Zaqtan, Rosalind Nashashibi and Catherine Yass, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Yousry Nasrallah, Atash Tawfik Abu-Wael, Danielle Arbid, Nasser Latham, Cooking with Lisa Farjam
| Weight | 0.546000 |
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| Binding | Magazine |
| Pages | 86 |
| Date Published | 2004-10-14 00:00:00 |
| Publisher | Central Books - magazine back issues |
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Bidoun
Walid Raad has a knack for tricks. A thirty-seven-year-old contemporary artist based between Brooklyn and Beirut, Raad has been known to confuse form and fact. He is the driving force behind an organization called the Atlas Group, which takes a serious and fastidious approach to the accumulation of documents related to Lebanon’s recent history in […]
Maarek Hob (Dans les Champs de Bataille/In the Battlefields) marks the feature film debut of Danielle Arbid. Telling the story of a besieged Christian family in East Beirut during the Lebanese civil war, the film centers on twelve-year-old Lina and her friendship with her free-spirited aunt’s maid, Siham. Coming from a documentary background, which includes […]
The Photography Biennial, held under the auspices of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, showed over 250 contributions both photojournalistic and artistic in temperament, a (surprising) number of which were well worth seeing. Farshid Azarang’s arrangement of old portraits of family members, for example, juxtaposed with images of TV screens, was a self-reflective commentary on history and the media that was intriguing and enigmatic, in a pleasant, Hassan Khan-ish sort of way. The work of Mohamad Ghazali, who won first prize with a graphic constellation of colored plaques propping up a series of forbidding architectural motifs and identical self-portraits, was similar in its shrewdly aestheticized, self-reflective appeal.
PREVIEWS
PROFILE
Walid Raad The Atlas Group Opens Its Archive
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Calligraphy: Three contemporary artists
Huda AbiFares
Calligraphy: An historical study
Huda AbiFares
THE ART OF ARCHIVING
Foundation Arabe pour L’Image Middle Eastern Photographic Archive
Antonia Carver
Collector’s Diary: Iran
Negar Azimi
Collector’s Diary: Mexico
Fouad Elkoury
THE POLITICS OF ARCHIVING
Islamic Arts at a Crossroads Museums embrace “Islamic Art”
Coco Ferguson
LITERATURE
Introduction Literature in the Balance
Alia Rayyan
INTERVIEW
Edwar al-Charrat on Egypt’s young literary scene
Ghassan Zaqtan recommends upcoming Palestinian writers
Thinking Fussha, Feeling ‘Amiya Between: Classical and Colloquial Arabic
Iman Humaydan Younes
ART
Having a Take: Rosalind Nashashibi and Catherine Yass talk about making work in Palestine and Israel
FILM
Cannes, Paris, Ramallah Summer Film Festival Diary
Antonia Carver, Ali Jaafar, Alia Rayyan
Cinema RIF Yto Barrada’s Tangier Cinematheque
Antonia Carver
Bab El Chams Yousry Nasrallah’s epic
Ali Jaafar
Atash Tawfik Abu-Wael’s debut feature
Ali Jaafar
Domestic Battlefields: Danielle Arbid discusses her East Beirut classic
Maarek Hob
MUSIC
A Life Reconstructed Rediscovering Na ‘ima al-Misriyya
Negar Azimi
FASHION
As Four 101
Porochista Khakpour
Western Icons’ Orientalist Affair
Cesar Padilla
REVIEWS
Ala Ebtekar: ‘Elemental’ The Gallery at the intersection for Arts, San Francisco
Alison Bing
The 9th Tehran Photography Biennial: Khiyal Hall, Tehran Art Academy
Tirdad Zolghadr
Mediterraneans Macro al Mattatoio, Rome
Yasser Aggour
Laughter London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT)
Leila M
Arab Art Workshop Zenith Foundation; The Barbican, London
Malu Halasa
They Shoot Horses Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Phil Collins
Susan Hefuna: “Xcultural Codes” Bluecoats Arts Centre
Bryan Biggs
Manima: A tale of two brothers
COOKING
Lisa Farjam, Editor-in-Chef
SPOTLIGHT
Nasser Latham: Journalist, translator, mediator
Alia Rayyan
