Bidoun Issue 9 Winter 2007

Antonia Carver
The Case for Independence
Sigismond De Vajay
On Failure
Tirdad Zolghadr, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anton Vidokle
A Disclosure
Bidoun
Fake Memoirs and Truth As Style
George Pendle
London’s Nocturnal Blues
Sukhdev Sandhu
Narges and The Case of Iranian Docudrama
Sohrab Mohebbi
I Have a Cheap Plastic Camera
Maurizio Cattelan, Roman Ondák
Tall Tales in Tehran
Anton Karster
What Noah Knew
The Yes Men
Archetypal Intellectuals, Devastated Revolutionaries, Kitsch Mythologies, and a Writer Who Dared to Look at Herself
Hassan Khan
Sex and Stereotype on the Sub-Continent
Naeem Mohaiemen
Schoolgirls Slowly Falling to the Ground
Yasser Abd El Latif
Soda as Politick
Curtis Brown
How the Art World Prospers by Never Explaining Itself
Mary Blair Taylor
On Tahmineh Milani’s Cease Fire
Vahid F. Parsa
A Journey Into Beirut’s Dark Side
Tony Chakar
Music Pioneer Halim El-Dabh
Sam Shalabi
Automatic Rumor
Chris Csikszentmihályi
Debating the Future of Martyrs’ Square
Makram elKadi, Bouki Babalou-Noukaki
Film Festival Diary
Jim Quilty, Saeed Taji Farouky
Iran.com — Iranian Art Today
Amanda Coulson
9th Aleppo International Photography Gathering
Wendy Watriss
Basim Magdy
Brian Kuan Wood
Liminal Spaces
Shahira Eissa
Nafas: Beirut
Tom McCarthy
The Hassan Hourani Award
Khaled Hourani
As if by Magic
Reem Fadda
Adel Abdessemed
Alexandra Cohen
Below the Poverty Line
Fatin Abbas
Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook
Bidoun
The Politics of (Iraqi) Food
Michael Rakowitz
Afterthought
Tamer El-Leithy