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Since 2004, Bidoun has filled a gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East, pioneering a distinctive voice that is intelligent, critical,...
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Projects | Bidoun
Bidoun Projects is dedicated to supporting contemporary art and culture from the Middle East and the diaspora. Individual projects are conceived and managed by...
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Introduction | Bidoun
Bidoun seeks to reenvision the Middle East, its peoples, and its diverse diasporas through writing that is at once serious and irreverent, questing and...
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Bidoun Mix 5: Meriem Bennani | Bidoun
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Book of Judges: Larry David and the War on the War on Comedy | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - The war of all against all against nothing
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The True Things: A Conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - I call it the mini-skirtification of Iranian discourse.
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House Arab | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - I was working at the magazine as a fact-checker and my parents no longer considered me a failure, not because they read or admired it, but because when they...
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A Private Ocean: Iman Mersal and Maru Pabón in Conversation | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - Why should I add to this archive of nostalgic poems? It would be like grabbing the first fruit in the tree.
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Since 2004, Bidoun has filled a gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East, pioneering a distinctive voice that is intelligent, critical,...
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Laughter Was Our Inheritance: A Beirut Diary | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - On February 14, 2005, the day Rafik Hariri was assassinated, I was sent to confession for the first time.
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Matter and Mind | Bidoun
Apr 7, 2026 - As a child in Tehran, the artist Shirin Sabahi took weekly painting classes not far from Park-e Laleh, or tulip park, in the sprawling city center.
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