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Amal Kenawy, 1974-2012

Amal Kenawy, 1974-2012

Amal Kenawy
October 1, 1974 - August 19, 2012

Your bravery was unsurpassed. Your art was unforgettable. We will miss you.

Bidoun Seeks Motivated Advertising Salesperson

Bidoun is an award-winning independent magazine covering the arts & culture of the Middle East and its Diaspora. It is published quarterly, under the larger umbrella of Bidoun Projects.

We are looking for an experienced advertising salesperson to oversee global advertising and business development for Bidoun.

Responsibilities
• Maintain and expand advertising base.
• Research and identify opportunities for growth, and prospects for new business.
• Maximize revenue, while developing creative and strategic solutions for advertisers.
• Conduct rate negotiations with clients, and lock in long-term advertising programs.
• Track advertising performance, and measure sales goals.

Required Experience & Skills
• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 1-3 years experience at a print publication or in a related role.
• A demonstrated understanding of media sales.
• The ability to work independently, and to think strategically about growing advertising for the magazine.

Additional Skills
• A motivated self-driven individual with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with a friendly ability to engage and build relationships with prospective advertisers.
• The ability to work independently and on deadline.
• Fluency in Farsi or Arabic a plus but not required.
• Interest in Middle Eastern culture a plus.

Please submit your resume along with a brief letter expressing your interest to: [email protected].

Done o preste libros relacionados con el medio- riente! Donate or lend books related to the Middle East!

El Eco and Bidoun Collaboration

Una colaboración entre El Eco, Bidoun y Tomo
※ Algunos ejemplos de que puedes donar/prestar: libros sobre petróleo, revistas de viajes, novelas románticas, ensayos, …
※ Las donaciones se pueden entregar en el museo dentro de sus horarios o por favor de contactarnos para solicitar que se recoja el material.
※ Todos los libros, material impreso y/o revistas proporcionados serían devueltos al concluir el evento — ¡al menos que se done!

A collaboration between El Eco, Bidoun, and Tomo
※ Some examples: books on oil and gas, magazines about travel, pulp romances, …
※ Donations may be delivered to the museum during opening hours or contact us to arrange for pick up.
※ All books, printed material and / or magazines provided will be returned at the conclusion of the event — unless being donated!

Preguntas/Questions: [email protected]

Super Models Launch Party at Bidoun

Super Models Launch Party at Bidoun

Book launch party
& “Real Talk”
with Super Models contributors
Babak Radboy (Bidoun)
& Andy Pressman (Rumors, Bidoun)
moderated by Harry Gassel
Thursday 12 July at 7 PM
Bidoun
47 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
www.gdnyc.org/supermodels

Bidoun #26 Launch at 155 Freeman

Friday, May 18 at 7pm
155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation

A celebration of the publication of Bidoun #26, Soft Power, hosted by Triple Canopy at 155 Freeman

Featuring a conversation between Iman Issa and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, readings by Anand Balakrishnan and Michael C. Vazquez, and music by Tiffany Malakooti


Join us in celebrating the twenty-sixth issue of Bidoun, which considers art and patronage, state-sponsored media, cultural diplomacy, revolution and counterrevolution, nation and/or corporate branding, and potato chips as public relations.

Artist Iman Issa will discuss monuments and mysteries, among other things, with Bidoun contributing editor Kaelen Wilson-Goldie , who writes about Issa in “ Radical Subtraction.” Issa’s work, which was part of the recent New Museum Triennial, “The Ungovernables,” creates an eloquent language of forms to address unruly questions about place, power and memory.

Writer Anand Balakrishnan will read from his story “The Serendipity of Sand,” which ponders the ultimate civilizational soft-power gambit — the monumental ruin — and what that might have to do with the zebra’s beguiling stripes.

Bidoun senior editor Michael C. Vazquez will present outtakes from his essay “ The Bequest of Quest,” which contemplates the curious legacy of Cold War magazines funded by the American CIA, including the Indian literary magazine Quest and the African journal Transition.

A slide show of covers of nation-state self-help books, drawn from Shumon Basar and Parag Khanna’s article “Soft Readers Prefer Hard Covers,” will be shown.

Throughout the evening, Bidoun’s Tiffany Malakooti will play Iranian wedding trance and Lebanese happy softcore.

Join the Facebook event!

Bidoun Bookshelf Launch

Bidoun Bookshelf

Bidoun Bookshelf Launch
Sunday May 6th from 6-9pm
47 Orchard Street between Grand and Hester

Join us for the launch of the Bidoun Bookshelf, a micro-bookshop in our storefront space on the Lower East Side in which we present and sell unique, rare, or otherwise compelling books from across the Bidouniverse.

Presented in conjunction with Frieze NY’s Downtown Night

Bidoun at the March Meeting, Global Art Forum, and Art Dubai

Negar Azimi speaking at the Global Art Forum, Dubai

Negar Azimi speaking at the Global Art Forum, Dubai

Much of team Bidoun has spent the past week in the Gulf, with Negar Azimi and Tiffany Malakooti presenting at the March Meeting in Sharjah; Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Michael Vazquez, Alexander Provan, Yasmine El Rashidi, Sophia Al-Maria, and Negar Azimi participating in the Global Art Forum in Doha and at Art Dubai, curated by Shumon Basar; all in addition to our regular booth at the fair and screenings of two great archival documentaries on Ardeshir Mohasses and Parviz Tanavoli and his founding of the sculpture department at the University of Tehran.

Come say hello if you’re in Dubai, or follow us — or someone with superior social-networking skills — on Facebook and Twitter.

Bidoun and "Revolution vs Revolution" at the Beirut Art Center

Ebrahim Golestan, Yek Atash (A Fire), 1961

Ebrahim Goelstan, still from Yek Atash (A Fire), 1961

Revolution vs Revolution,
March 14, 26, 28
Beirut Art Center

In the context of Beirut Art Center’s exhibition “Revolution vs Revolution,” Bidoun’s Tiffany Malakooti presents two curated film programs around Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979 and Negar Azimi gives a talk entitled “Iran in Pictures: Social Suffering and Three Sets of Images.”
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 8pm
Ebrahim Golestan,_ Yek Atash (A Fire), 1961, 24’
Kamran Shirdel, _Tehran Is the Capital of Iran
, 1966, 18’
Parviz Kimiavi, Ya Zamene Ahu (O Guardian of the Deer), 1970, 20’

Monday March 26, 2012 at 8pm
Kianoush Ayari,_ Tazeh Nafas-ha (The Newborns)_, 1979, 45’
Wednesday March 28, 2012 at 8pm
Iran in Pictures: Social Suffering and Three Sets of Images by Negar Azimi
http://beirutartcenter.org

Bidoun at the Independent

Bidoun at the Independent, 2011

Bidoun’s space at the Independent last year

The Independent
March 8-11th
548 West 22nd Street
New York

Bidoun is one of three publications invited to present at the Independent Art Fair this weekend. Visit our rooftop space to browse Bidoun past and present, talk to our staff and interns, and drink Persian tea.
http://www.independentnewyork.com

BubuWeb: Kianoush Ayari's Tazeh Nafas-ha

Kianoush Ayari, Tazeh Nafas-ha, 1979

Kianoush Ayari, still from Tazeh Nafas-ha, 1979

Kianoush Ayari
Tazeh Nafas-ha (The Newborns)
1979
45 min
In Farsi with English subtitles

Kianoush Ayari’s documentary captures rare scenes of everyday life on the streets of Tehran in the months following the revolution of 1979 — that somewhat utopian period between revolutionary violence and the formation of a full fledged Islamic Republic when a bright future seemed possible, if not probable.

In this Tehran, we witness books carrying conflicting ideologies sold openly on the streets, laborers debating as to the wages they have been promised, and young men donning Arab garb to have their portrait taken with a Yasser Arafat backdrop. We also witness extended scenes from three different political plays, along with street theatre in a park where a performer imitates various iconic pop singers, political figures, and even the Shah himself.

Still, images from slums in the south of the city remind us of lurking problems in the background, and while the film ends on an optimistic note — with footage of youth energetically campaigning for upcoming elections — 33 years later and in light of current events, that optimism seems misplaced, if not bittersweet.

Kianoush Ayari’s Tazeh Nafas-ha on UbuWeb

This upload is part of the BubuWeb project — a partnership between Bidoun and UbuWeb which aims to make available rare audio and visual materials from the Middle East.

Reza Abdoh on UbuWeb

Reza Abdoh, still from Bogeyman, 1991

Reza Abdoh, still from Bogeyman, 1991

We are very pleased to present eight rare videos from experimental theater director Reza Abdoh (b. 1963 Tehran, d. 1995 New York City) on UbuWeb. The videos include four show tapes used in theatrical performances: _ The Hip-Hop Waltz of Eurydice_ (1990), _ Bogeyman_ (1991), _ The Law of Remains_ (1992), _ Tight Right White_ (1993) and four standalone experimental videos: _ My Face_ (1986), _ Sleeping with the Devil_ (1990), _ Daddy’s Girl_ (1991), _ The Weeping Song_ (1991).
Reza Abdoh was an Iranian-born director and playwright known for his large-scale, experimental theatrical productions that utilized multimedia elements and violent sexual imagery. Reza Abdoh died of AIDS on May 11, 1995 in New York City at the age of 32.
Reza Abdoh on UbuWeb

With special thanks to Adam Soch, Brenden Doyle, and Salar Abdoh.
This program is part of the BubuWeb project — a partnership between Bidoun and UbuWeb which aims to make available rare audio and visual materials from the Middle East.

A Celebration of Transition at the New Museum

Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 7pm
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York

transition_01

Transition: An International Review is an award-winning journal of Africa and its many diasporas — where a strikingly large number of Bidounis got their start. On December 8th, Bidoun’s Michael Vazquez and an all-star cast mark the 50th anniversary of Transition’s founding with performances, readings, and an editor’s roundtable, hosted by Kelefa Sanneh and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.
Tickets and more information here.

The Changing Middle East at MoMA

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 6pm
Theater 3, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building,
4 West 54th Street

townhouse

On December 7th Bidoun’s Negar Azimi will join William Wells, Director of Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, and Glenn D. Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, in a sprawling conversation about the arts in the swiftly changing Middle East. Azimi will narrate the various and vexed issues related to the production of Bidoun #25, made in Cairo.

Tickets and more information here.

Celebrating Albert Cossery

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7pm
WORD bookstore, 126 Franklin Street, Brooklyn

Albert Cossery in Cairo

On December 6th Bidoun joins forces with New Directions and The New York Review of Books for a panel discussion on the late Egyptian novelist, Albert Cossery, whose greatest subject was laziness, and whose characters — anarchists, revolutionaries, retired philosophers — seek happiness by doing as little as possible. A scene in Tahrir Square from The Colors of Infamy, recently published by ND, appeared in Bidoun #25. The panel includes Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of The Paris Review, Cossery’s translators Anna Moschovakis and Alyson Waters, and Bidoun’s Anna Della Subin.

The Bidoun Auction

Tuesday 11th October 2011
6 – 9 pm
Auction begins at 7:30pm
Christie’s
8 King Street, St. James’s
London SW1Y 6QT



Farhad Moshiri (B. 1963)
SCREAM
Hand embroidered beads and glaze on canvas on board, in four parts
Each: 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm.)
Overall: 78 ¾ x 78 ¾ in. (200 x 200 cm.)
Executed in 2011
£100,000 – £150,000

The evening will begin with a conversation between the Serpentine Gallery’s Hans-Ulrich Obrist and artist Etel Adnan.


Click here to browse the auction catalog.

Participating Artists:
Afsoon, Etel Adnan, Shirin Aliabadi, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Trisha Donnelly, Fouad Elkoury, Armen Eloyan, Jeremy Deller, Elger Esser, Simone Fattal, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Susan Hefuna, Pouran Jinchi, YZ Kami, Nate Lowman, Tala Madani, Haroon Mirza, Youssef Nabil, Timo Nasseri, Shirin Neshat, Paul Pfeiffer, Walid Raad, Hesam Rahmanian, Shirana Shahbazi, Slavs and Tatars, Lawrence Weiner, Andro Wekua, and Carey Young.

Auction Committee:
Alia Al-Senussi, Antonia Carver, Chelsea Clinton, Maryam Eisler, Farhad Farjam, Dana Farouki, Coco Ferguson, Tony Shafrazi, Saadi Soudavar and Zeina Durra, Jimmy Traboulsi, Burkhard Varnholt, Sheena Wagstaff
For more information:
Isabelle de La Bruyère
[email protected]
+971 4425 5647
Dubai
Julie Vial
[email protected]
+44 207 389 2170
London
Dina Nasser-Khadivi
[email protected]
+44 207 389 2170
London