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COVER

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NEWS

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PREVIEWS

Curatorial Column: Terms Falling
Akram Zaatari

Museums Column: The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Tirdad Zolghadr

Infrastructure Column: Arts and Selling America
Negar Azimi

Work in Progress: Mehrnaz Afzali's The Red Card
Sohrab Mohebbi

Work in Progress: Feral Trade Wild Market Rice Cookers Antonia Carver

Opinion: Art as
European Invention
Charlotte Bydler

Travel: Baghdad Deluxe
Seif El Din with Negar Azimi

Artist Profile: Wael Shawky
Mary Blair Taylor

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ENVY

Intro: Envy as consumer credo and political temperament
Tirdad Zolghadr

Pashmina Power: Class Structure in international arts funding
Nav Haq

Nuclear Capabilities Aside: The trickle-up politics of Ahmadinejad
Coco Ferguson

Envy and Luck: The bliss of ignorance
Bilal Khbeiz
Translated by Walid Sadek


California McDreaming: Fast food in Tehran
Soheyl Shahsavari

Mahrokh Mosta'ari in Tehran Remaking Hair in Georgia

Spoiled by the Promise of Brilliance: American
universities in the Arab World

Antonia Carver

He who eats alone chokes: The global mythology of the evil eye
Yahia Lababidi

A Persia more French: Orientalist bon vivant Paul Poiretand creator of mass haute couture
Porochista Khakpour

Land of the Seven Scarves: The Kuchis, Afghanistan's nomads
Elizabeth Rubin

Artist Project in collaboration with Bidoun: One day you'll
miss me
Shirana Shahbazi

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ARCHITECTURE

Yesterday's Utopia: What can we learn by looking back at large-scale modernism?
Brian Ackley

Blocking the Casbah:
Le Corbusier's Algerian fantasy

Brian Ackley

Medinat Nasr
Clare Davies

Super Center: Life in Tehran's largest housing development
Brian Ackley

Istanbul's Gated Communities
Pelin Tan

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ART

Paul Chan on Despotism, democracy and the Fetish
Negar Azimi

Artist Project: Coloring Book
Ahmet Ogut and Sener Ozmen

Responding to War
Tom Holert

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DESIGN

Arabic Typeface Design
in a Digital Age
Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares

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FASHION

For the Poet has a Butcher's Face and the Butcher a Poet's
Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili

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FILM

Hysterical Repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's A Perfect Day
Antonia Carver

Kiarostami's Close-Up revisited
Coco Ferguson

Emotional Fields
Hassan Khan

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BOOKS

Flame Wars: A brief history of blogging in Tehran
Alaa Abd El Fattah

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REVIEWS

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PRODUCTS

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COOKING
Nav Haq

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BIDOUN PHRASE BOOK
The Contemporary Traveler's Indispensable Phrases


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AFTERTHOUGHT
Stephen Wright

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