Bidoun Projects

Arts and culture from, in, and around the Middle East

[Longreads @Longreads]

"I wrote up a style guide and circulated it among the checkers and copy editors, though I don’t know if anyone ever used it. I started to feel a target growing on my back and stopped fighting as much. I was exhausted."

Ismail Ibrahim for @bidoun: https://t.co/r6vogRVHIJ

[Bidoun Projects @Bidoun]

We launched a (free) newsletter on substack! An occasion to feature shorter, timelier, more casual content: interviews, as-told-to’s, diaries, recommendations, pictures, moving pictures, mixtapes, listings of Bidounish happenings: https://t.co/O7yzdDdVJY JOIN US

[Bidoun Projects @Bidoun]

House Arab by Ismail Ibrahim !

An account of a conscience in crisis: https://t.co/gOpxzh7b9F

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Read “The Shit,” an excerpt from ⁦Youssef Rakha’s riotous new novel “The Dissenters,” with an afterword by ⁦@zaintkhalid⁩ and illustration by Ebecho Muslimova: https://t.co/MlJjv36h7r

[Zain Khalid @zaintkhalid]

Read this brilliant excerpt and my brief afterword, and then join us on February 4th @Triple_Canopy with @Bidoun !

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Bidoun is hiring a part-time editor ! Details here: https://t.co/oCdzVWZAVA

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A micro oral history of our project in ⁦@friezeofficial⁩ https://t.co/z4i2WZ2lB2 🧿🧿

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Sunday 6/30 @AnthologyFilm: the U.S. premiere of Rahmaneh Rabani and Bahman Kiarostami's 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙚 (2023), a remarkably candid documentary about rising religious and political conflicts within one Iranian family. https://t.co/iuECIP0oWn

[Bidoun Projects @Bidoun]

Wednesday, May 8 @MovingImageNYC we're co-presenting a screening of Michel Khleifi's documentary 𝘍𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 (1981), followed by a discussion with Adam HajYahia. https://t.co/tCH437KPPv

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Tomorrow, March 9, Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in conversation about Kaveh’s debut novel: Martyr! Generously hosted by Triple Canopy 264 Canal Street @ 6 pm xxxxx a teaser in Bidoun: https://t.co/QGRZDvYm3L

[Le Cinéma Club @lecinemaclub]

Now showing: FORAGERS, a portrait of resistance through a community’s love of collecting wild plants by JUMANA MANNA

A look at local foraging practices among Palestinians determined to protect their customs.

For one week on https://t.co/ze1aiGlY0x in collaboration with @Bidoun.

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“I’m interested in what it means to feel rage thirty-five years later about an event that nobody in America even remembers…” Kaveh Akbar and Anahid Nersessian in conversion about Martyr!, Akbar’s stunning debut novel: https://t.co/z4RgksLznQ

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Today is the last day to order our rare re-issued Edward Said T-shirt. ALL proceeds go to ⁦@MedicalAidPal⁩ https://t.co/KABOPowqyE … order by midnight Pacific time ✨

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

“We could parse, here, the irony of European countries, self-proclaimed bastions of free speech, banning protests, cancelling award ceremonies, and demanding to review a writer’s planned remarks. But that is not the point.”
https://t.co/CMr5Qi3Anw

[Bidoun Projects @Bidoun]

Join us Friday night for the New York launch of 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘈𝘗𝘚, Meriem Bennnai’s first monographic book, named after her iconic film trilogy of the same name.

Feat readings + conversations with Meriem Bennani, Omar Berrada, and @3LVVIA.

https://t.co/YomfgH1EuY

[Palestine Festival of Literature @PalFest]

One time only event coming up in NYC this Wednesday November 1st.

Spread the word.

See you there.

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The screening will be followed by a discussion with journalist @sharifkouddous and writer @chebhocine, both of whom have family buried in the City of the Dead.

Proceeds from the screening will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine.

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Thursday @AnthologyFilm 7:30pm we're screening two films on Cairo: Youssef Chahine's wry love letter to his adopted city, CAIRO, AS TOLD BY YOUSSEF CHAHINE (1991), and the US premiere of a new restoration of Jocelyne Saab’s EGYPT, CITY OF THE DEAD (1977) https://t.co/HoTGl3UfEx

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

A ceasefire is the immediate demand of the people in Gaza and the bare minimum. If you’re refusing to heed their calls because it’s a “liberal ask,” take a hard look at your breathing family. Look out your window: there is no white phosphorus. Consider the weight of 4651 killed.