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COVER

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LETTER

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ARTIST PROJECT
I heard a Rumor, 2006
Shumon Basar and Markus Miessen

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PREVIEWS

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MUSEUM
Kabul Zoo as museum
Daniel Metcalfe

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HOTEL
Afghans in India and one hotel's curious history
Kai Friese

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ARTIST PROFILE
Introducing Cassius Al Madhloum
Tirdad Zolghadr

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WORK IN PROGRESS
Iranian pop phenomenon Javad Yassari caught on film
Houman Mortazavi

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WORK IN PROGRESS
Mahmoud Khaled's alias logs in to explore controversial terrain
Bassam El-Baroni

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WORK IN PROGRESS
In between the public, the work, and the artist: Bojan Sarcevic
David Rych

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INFRASTRUCTURE
Institutional self-censorship and religious sensitivity
Nav Haq

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ART MARKET
Frieze, Christie's, and the Dubai Effect
Antonia Carver

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CURATORIAL SPACE
The case for independence
Sigismond De Vajay

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INTERVIEW
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anton Vidokle, and Tirdad Zolghadr at the opening of unitednationsplaza


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RUMOR

ARTIST PROJECT
A Disclosure: An artist, the editors and a newsroom graphic designer

Fake memoirs and truth as style
George Pendle

Narges and the case of Iranian docudrama
Sohrab Mohebbi

London's nocturnal blues
Sukhdev Sandhu

Maurizio Cattelan meets Roman Ondák

Tall-tales in Tehran
Anton Karster

ARTIST PROJECT
What Noah Knew
The Yes Men

Archetypal intellectuals, devastated revolutionaries, kitsch mythologies, and a writer who dared to look at herself
Hassan Khan

Sex and stereotype on the sub-continent
Naeem Mohaiemen

The phenomenon of collective hypnosis
Yasser Abd El Latif

Soda as Politick
Curtis Brown

How the art world prospers by never explaining itself
Mary Blair Taylor

Networks of images, lives, and deaths
Chris Csikszentmihályi

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FILM
On Tahmineh Milani's Cease Fire
Vahid F Parsa

A journey into Beirut's dark side
Tony Chakar

Film Festival Diary
Saeed Taji Farouky and Jim Quilty

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ARCHITECTURE
Debating the Future of Martyrs' Square
Makram elKadi and Bouki Babalou-Noukaki

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MUSIC
Music pioneer Halim El-Dabh
Sam Shalabi

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REVIEWS
Book Review
Below the Poverty Line: A Novel
Fatin Abbas

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PHRASE BOOK
Egyptian Arabic

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COOKING
Michael Rakowitz

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AFTERTHOUGHT
The Open Secret
Tamer El-Leithy










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