Bidoun is a quarterly magazine about art and culture in the Middle East, published by the non-profit collective Bidoun Projects. The magazine is driven by a central paradox: how does one make a journal on a region like the Middle East while simultaneously questioning the neutrality of journalism and the region's very existence as more than a construct of outside interests? How does one 'picture' a region in which representation is a point of contestation and a site of historical exploitation? The answer, in part, has been to let these problematics themselves propel our process — from editorial to image production — resulting in a quarterly which is by turns remarkably inconsistent and consistently remarkable:
