| Editors | Negar Azimi, Michael C. Vazquez |
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| Former editors | Tirdad Zolghadr |
| Categories | Art and culture |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| First issue | Spring 2004 |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | www.bidoun.org |
| ISSN | 15514048 |
Bidoun is a quarterly print magazine published in New York and subtitled "art and culture from the Middle East." The magazine was founded in 2004 by Editor-in-Chief Lisa Farjam. Bidoun also encompasses Bidoun Projects, a non-profit organization dedicated to curatorial and educational projects around the world.[1]
Bidoun was a finalist for the 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (circulation category less than 100k). It has won three Utne Independent Press Awards, for Social/Cultural Coverage and Design.
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The word "bidoun" means “without” in both Arabic and Persian. It is commonly mispronounced and confused with the word Bedouin.
Notable contributors to the magazine include: Tirdad Zolghadr, Pankaj Mishra, Binyavanga Wainaina, Eyal Weizman, Tony Shafrazi, The Yes Men, Mai Abu ElDahab, Jace Clayton, Thomas Keenan, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yto Barrada, Bruce Hainley, Hampton Fancher, Gini Aldaheff, Elizabeth Rubin, Shirana Shahbazi, Hassan Khan, Akram Zaatari, Michael Rakowitz, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, William E Jones, Rokni Haerizadeh, Christopher Hitchens, Shumon Basar, Farhad Moshiri, Lawrence Weiner, Charles Esche and Mohamed Mrabet, Slavs and Tatars, George Pendle, Wayne Koestenbaum, Amir Ali Ghassemi, Sislej Xhafa.
In 2009 Bidoun initiated a collaboration with the web-based archive UbuWeb in order to make available rare video and sound pieces from in and around the Middle East.[5]
"When you talk to me about West and East and Bidoun—I’m a real fan, as you know, of the magazine— but I don’t think it’s going to help." —Lawrence Weiner
"Bidoun emerged at just the right time as the world looked at the Middle East through the singular lens of failure. The magazine is smart and irreverent in all the right ways." —Ahdaf Soueif
"Bidoun’s editorial voice might be described as a combination of Artforum and Harper's, its audience comprising artists, academics, and intellectually curious readers who enjoy a magazine that manages to dissect Edward Said and Michael Jackson in the same issue." —Print magazine