Articles

Talk of the Townhouse: William Wells

A conversation with William Wells, director of The Townhouse Gallery in downtown Cairo, where Bidoun was in residency for two months.

Bidoun

The Revolution Will Not Be Fictionalized

The writer Mahmoud Othman talks about his sci-fi novel Revolution 2053, which, in more ways than one, prophesied the events of the revolution of 2011.

Mahmoud Othman

Enough is Not Enough: Abdel-Halim Qandil

Abdel-Halim Qandil is a prolific journalist and editor whose work has been censored or banned many times in the past decade.

Bidoun

Practical Advice: Ganzeer

A conversation with the graffiti artist Ganzeer.

Bidoun

Thirty-Three Questions

What has schizophrenia to do with serious art?

Doa Aly

“Who Said He Was Not Tortured?”: The Medical Examiner

On three consecutive nights at the end of April, TV journalist Yousry Fouda’s show Akher Kalam (Last Words) considered the case of Dr.

Bidoun

Muslim Bro 2.0: Abdel-Moneim Abou El Fotouh

This past May, Abdel-Moneim Abou El Fotouh announced that he would run for president of Egypt.

Bidoun

Denial TV: Shahira Amin

Shahira Amin was a senior correspondent and the deputy head for the state-owned Nile TV who resigned on February 3, following the network’s refusal to provide coverage of the revolution that was under way.

Bidoun

No More Revolutions: Mohamed Hamdy Mustafa

The artist Ayman Ramadan listens to Mohamed Hamdy Mustafa, a seller of spare car parts.

Ayman Ramadan

An Activist Encounters Her File: Esraa Abdel Fattah

During the first week of March, some weeks after the fall of the House of Mubarak, hundreds of protesters stormed state security offices across the country in an inspired show of citizen force.

Yasmine El Rashidi

All Content is Useful: Ramy Raoof

A conversation with human rights activist Ramy Raoof, who set up a multimedia tent in Tahrir Square in late January, where people could share their video footage, photos, and testimonies from the revolution.

Bidoun

Proof That it Happened: Magdi Mostafa

Magdi Mostafa is an artist who works with sound and visuals.

Bidoun, Bidoun

Stay Away From My Afterlife!: Ahmed Mohammed

A walk through the Egyptian Museum in Cairo with licensed tour guide Ahmed Mohammed, at the rate of 150 Egyptian pounds per hour.

Bidoun, Bidoun

The Particular Believer: Nawal El Saadawi

A conversation with Nawal El Saadawi, activist, feminist, writer, doctor.

Bidoun

The New Gornalism: Sanaa Seif and Hanin Tarek

A conversation with Sanaa Seif and Hanin Tarek, two teenage girls who started a newspaper called Gornal in Tahrir Square during the revolution.

Bidoun

The Colors of Infamy

Born in Cairo in 1913, Albert Cossery wrote eight novels in sixty years, all of which celebrate his philosophy of laziness and boast a cast of hedonists, vagrants, anarchists, and thieves.

Albert Cossery

The Family That Revolts Together: The Seif Family

In the storied lexicon of Egyptian dynasties, the curly-haired Seifs of Cairo will go down in history.

Alaa Abd El Fattah, Bidoun

Sixty-Four Antiquities Stolen from the Egyptian Museum on January 28

ANTIQUITIES THAT HAVE BEEN RECOVERED Objects found in a bag in the metro station by a passerby 1: Gilded wooden statue of Tutankhamun standing in a boat throwing a harpoon.

Bidoun

Claw Your Hands and Say Yeah

Like plenty who found themselves outside of Egypt on #Jan25, I spent the first few days of the revolution contributing to the hysterical echo chamber on Facebook and Twitter.

Sophia Al-Maria

Keeping Up with the Khordadian: The Life and Times of the King of Iranian Dance

Since the 1980s, Khordadian has built up a dance and exercise and dance-as-exercise career that has made him the most famous Iranian mail-order entertainer on earth, beloved for his camp renditions of everything from Iranian folk dance to Arabian belly dance to American jazzercise.

Negar Azimi