Editorial and Creative Team

Lisa Farjam
Founding Editor
Lisa Farjam started Bidoun in the fall of 2003. She graduated with a BA in Literature from Bard College in 2000. She lives and works in New York City.

Negar Azimi
Senior Editor
Negar Azimi was based in Cairo until 2004, working as a curatorial assistant at the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art. She is a member of the Beirut-based Fondation Arabe pour l’Image, with whom she is working on photographic projects in Iran and the greater Arab region. She studied politics at Stanford and Harvard, and anthropology at Columbia. Follow her @negarazimi.

Michael C Vazquez
Senior Editor
Michael C Vazquez is a writer and editor. Before Bidoun he was the editor of Transition: An International Review, and remains a nonresident fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. Follow him @Michael_Vazquez.

Babak Radboy
Creative Director
Babak Radboy is an artist living in New York City. Besides Bidoun and his personal work he is a freelance art director, produces music and attends to an eccentric archive of printed matter. His work can be viewed at babakradboy.com. Follow him @babakradboy.

Anna Della Subin
Associate Editor
Anna Della Subin studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and religion & literature at Harvard. She is also an editor at the literary journal Stonecutter. Follow her @annadella.

Ben Tear
Office & Distribution Manager
Ben studied art and science at Oberlin.

E.P. Licursi
Editorial Assistant
Peter Licursi studied history at Columbia University and Yeditepe University in Istanbul.

Tiffany Malakooti
Special Projects
Tiffany Malakooti studied at the California Institute of the Arts. She runs a blog about Iranian artifacts called Belog and curates Bidoun‘s UbuWeb archive.

Rumors
Art Direction
Rumors is a multi-disciplinary, Brooklyn-based design studio founded in 2008 by Holly Gressley, Renda Morton and Andy Pressman. The studio works closely with clients and collaborators to consider the logic, function, and aesthetic of each project. Work can be seen at rumors-studio.com.

Alia Al-Sabi
Bidoun Projects Coordinator
Born in Dubai, Alia Al-Sabi graduated from the American University of Sharjah with a degree in architecture and a minor in philosophy. She spent her initial post-grad years exploring architecture within Dubai’s commercial reality of gated-communities, and Amman’s social potential of slums.

Ashley North Compton
Advertising Director
Ashley has a background in design and film, and began her career designing modern office spaces for non-profits. Besides Bidoun, Ashley curates events, works in the Art Department on film sets, and art directs photo shoots for clients and independent projects. Her work can be viewed here.

Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Contributing Editor
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie is a writer who lives and works in Beirut. She has contributed essays on contemporary art and visual culture in the Arab world to exhibition catalogues and anthologies, and has written for The New York Times, The Times of London and The Village Voice, among other publications. In addition to Bidoun, she works as a staff writer for The National and a correspondent for Artforum.

Alexander Provan
Contributing Editor
Alexander Provan is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Beyond Bidoun, he is a founding editor of the online magazine Triple Canopy. His work has appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and GQ, among other publications.

Sophia Al-Maria
Contributing Editor
Sophia Al-Maria is based in Doha, Qatar where she is Gulf Collection Curator at the soon-to-be-opened-and-renamed Arab Museum of Modern Art. She is currently writing a book for Harper Perennial entitled Dune Coon or Al-Amerikiya depending on her mood at deadline.

Aram Moshayedi
Contributing Editor
Aram Moshayedi currently lives in Los Angeles where he is assistant curator of the Gallery at REDCAT and a doctoral candidate in the department of art history at the University of Southern California. He has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogs, and has written for Artforum, Metropolis M, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Art in America, Art Lies, Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture, Art Papers, and Bidoun.

Sohrab Mohebbi
Contributing Editor
Sohrab Mohebbi is a writer/curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He received his MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and was a founding member of 127 band, Tehran. Mohebbi is currently a curatorial fellow at the Queens Museum of Art.

Shumon Basar
Contributing Editor
Shumon Basar is a writer, editor and curator. He co-edited the Bidoun published With/Without, and other books including Did Someone Say Participate, Cities from Zero, The World of Madelon Vriesendorp, and Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews Vol II. Shumon co-founded the print/collective sexymachinery, and is a contributing editor to Tank magazine. He also directs the Cultural Programme at the AA, London.

Yasmine El Rashidi
Contributing Editor
Yasmine El Rashidi is a Cairo-based writer. She contributes frequently to the New York Review of Books.