Current Fiscally sponsored Artists/Organizations
| Bidoun Projects Bidoun was founded with the intention of filling a gaping hole in the arts coverage of the Middle East and its Diaspora. Through the magazine and its affiliated projects, Bidoun provides a platform for expression that would otherwise go unheard and unseen. Bidoun’s projects wing is dedicated to supporting artists and initiatives from the Middle East as well as supporting needed research and documentation. We also commission artists’ projects, curate exhibitions, host workshops, produce books, and beyond. Institute for Arab Culture (Instituto da Culura Árabe), São Paulo, Brazil Images from the East 2010 is screening nine Egyptian classics including Anwar Wagdi's Ghazal al Banat (1949), and Henri Barakat's Dow'a al Karawan (1959, The Cry of the Curlew, also translated as The Nightingale's Prayer), as well as the late 1960s realist films like Youssef Chahine's masterpiece Al Ard (The Land), and Shadi Abdel Salam's unforgettable The Mummy (or The Night of Counting the Years). With subtitles in Portuguese, the program is screening at 3 cinemas in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, after which more than 200kg of this rare selection of 35mm film head straight back to Cairo. Maziar Bahari |