Yasmeen Al Awadi's Teeyla
Articles
Slavs and Tatars
Media Farzin
Memoirs of an Al-Ahram Journalist
On the afternoon of February 11, 2011, I watched a presenter from Egyptian state television extend his microphone carefully through the barbed wire barricade that had been erected around the iconic Radio and TV Building on the banks of the Nile in central Cairo.
Ursula Lindsey
Yasmine Hamdan
It’s very weird, because you can change the meaning just by taking a bath beforehand, or having a fight with your mother. I’m a moody singer.
Sophia Al-Maria
Michael Stevenson
It is a rare Marxist who does not believe in God but swears that the existence of the devil can be proven by the swing of a door.
Kate Sutton
Michelle Kuo
"If I can read a description of a work and that’s all that you need to know about the work, it’s probably not a very interesting work."
Negar Azimi, Michael C Vazquez
Revolution For Kids
What we wanted were rats, dogs that looked like the ones you see walking down the street, cats smoking cigarettes.
Mohieddin Ellabbad, Hassan Khan, Nawal Traboulsi
Kingdom of the Dolls
The wheels on Napoleon’s coach were made from ice cream container lids, and its hubcaps were champagne corks.
Sean Dockray
Tunes by DJ Sharif
Bidoun
Hassan Khan
A young man sits in the last of the downtown cafés that serve both ahwa sada (Turkish coffee) and beer, putting back Egypt’s own version of the latter (Stella) and taking in his surroundings. This is Hassan Khan and this is Cairo — a city marked by the occasional money-laundering sheikh, Prada hippies sipping Italian coffee at the American University, polyester-ed civil servants who swear by Sonallah Ibrahim (Egypt’s Kafka), and the ever-present, meticulously sifted refuse dump.
Bidoun
Letter from the Editor
Lisa Farjam
Going Public
Vasif Kortun
Breathing Room
Shirazeh Houshiary’s latest project Breath, a collaboration with architect and husband Pip Horne, climbs up out of the stone plaza in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
Brian Ackley
From the Bronx to Beirut
Ramsay Short
Tunes by DJ Sharif
Bidoun
Poetics of Proximity
Laura J. Kuo
Farhad Moshiri
Media Farzin
Tehran's Classy Clairvoyant
Ms. Shenas
Cooking with Maha Alusi
Bidoun
Navel Gazing
Mohammad Shirvani's first feature film is an intimate diary that mixes real life and screen life with experimental abandon. Welcome to Big Brother, Iranian style.
Antonia Carver
Previews
Bidoun
Amina Mansour
Bassam El-Baroni
The Transformer: On Tareq Abou El Fetouh
Alia Rayyan
Breathing Room
Shirazeh Houshiary’s latest project Breath, a collaboration with architect and husband Pip Horne, climbs up out of the stone plaza in front of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
Brian Ackley
BerlinBeirut
Bidoun
Head On
A man in his mid-forties sits behind the wheel of an old Mercedes Benz. His expression is both lethargic and empty from alcohol. Cut. The camera follows his excursion from a bird’s eye view. Then — without warning — he drives full throttle against a wall. Head-on collision.
Alia Rayyan
Ejteyah (Invasion)
Antonia Carver
Film in Brief
Bidoun
Manima
Manima
Far Near Distance
Tirdad Zolghadr
Shahram Entekhabi
Alia Rayyan
20th Century British Sculpture
Bidoun
For Bam
Antonia Carver
Dead Dogs
Over the past decade, groups of established and upcoming artists have begun taking their art out of the city’s clutch of contemporary galleries and displaying it instead in houses due for demolition, on the back of trucks circulating the expressways, in old military depots, and in half-built high-rises.
Antonia Carver
From Tehran to Tribeca
Antonia Carver
Meta Music
Bidoun
Beirut's CD-Theque
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
The Drape and the Fold of Rami Kashou
Porochista Khakpour
Cooking with Maha Alusi