Museum as Hub: the Bidoun Library Project September 8, 2010

The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about and around the Middle East. Arrayed along these shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, on subjects ranging from the oil boom to the Dubai bust, the Cold War to the hot pant, Pan-Arabs to Black Muslims, revolutionaries to royals and Orientalism to its opposites.