Bidoun Magazine

http://bidoun.com/index.php

Bidoun Magazine is a resource for the person wanting to clue themselves into Middle Eastern art and culture.  Bidoun seems to bridge an otherwise daunting gap between the American public and the reality of life and human experience around the world – I’m stoked to have found it.

Within you’ll find articles, reviews, and essays about art in the Middle East, it’s confluence with culture, and the people who push boundaries and turn heads.

Bidoun can be found at most major bookstores or on their website.

About Bidoun:

“Bidoun was created as a platform for ideas and an open forum for exchange, dialogue, and opinions about arts and culture from the Middle East.  Bidoun’s primary goal is to bring together cultural expressions from a vast and nuanced region.  Bidoun also addresses some of the widespread misconceptions about the region and its Diaspora by inciting readers to take a fresh look at the Middle East and its peoples, too often presented as one-dimensional or stagnant…………This is not about being authoritative.  Rather, Bidoun is an experiment: a collection of voices whose sum total aims to engage.”