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  • Dec 12, 2024 | newyorker.com | Negar Azimi

    The artist was hardly alone in his fixation. Walker Evans photographed Blackwood more than a hundred times, capturing her progression from nymphlike youth to haggard middle age.

  • 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.

  • Feb 26, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Negar Azimi

    My father’s parents lived around the corner from Al-Ailat, the largest bakery in Gaza. Al-Ailat, which means “the family” in Arabic, is run by the Shehada clan, Christians who have been in Gaza for centuries. While the bakery started as a storefront in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, it has expanded over the years to occupy half of an entire block. Al-Ailat is more than a bakery; there’s a cafe with cute bistro chairs where you can eat sweets and drink coffee.

  • Dec 4, 2023 | bidoun.org | Fatima Al Qadiri |Meriem Bennani |Negar Azimi |Tiffany Malakooti

    Friendship inflects and informs much of the artist Meriem Bennani’s work. Many of the actors in the films that comprise her dystopian science fictional film trilogy — Party on the CAPS (2018-19), Guided Tour of a Spill (2021), and Life on the CAPS (2022) — are old friends and family members, or artists whose work she admired from afar and later befriended whilst collaborating.

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Negar Azimi
Negar Azimi @negarazimi
26 Jan 25

RT @Bidoun: Read “The Shit,” an excerpt from ⁦Youssef Rakha’s riotous new novel “The Dissenters,” with an afterword by ⁦@zaintkhalid⁩ and i…

Negar Azimi
Negar Azimi @negarazimi
20 Jan 25

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

Negar Azimi
Negar Azimi @negarazimi
14 Dec 24

Wrote about the greatest writer you may have never heard of ….

The New Yorker
The New Yorker @NewYorker

Caroline Blackwood was the author of wit-drenched books about the wages of class, women’s inhumanity to women, bitchiness, greed, abjection, family, monsters. But motherhood as original sin was her most persistent theme. https://t.co/RVHJeeo63C