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Aug 16, 2024 | frieze.com | Sophia Al Maria |Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili |Negar Azimi |Anna Della Subin |Antonia Carver |Yasmine El Rashidi | +9 more

Lisa Farjam Bidoun was really born out of a reaction to 9/11 and the subsequent rise of Islamophobia and sensationalist Western media coverage of the Middle East. In the arts specifically, media coverage of the region was always quite superficial. I was interested in building bridges between cities like Cairo and Beirut, and working with the communities of writers and artists who lived there. Initially, Bidoun grew out of conversations between myself and my closest friend, Sunny Rahbar.