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How’s Business: Moussa Barbar: Manager, Cinema Royal, Beirut
It’s almost midnight.
Vartan Avakian
Magazine Bazaar: Interview with Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown, founder, editor, and publisher of
Soldier of Fortune
If you have nothing more exciting to do, join me for a spot of lion hunting in Africa this season.
Alexander Provan
Magazine Bazaar: Mat Gleason’s
Coagula
When I arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s, the highlight of most visits to museums and galleries was picking up the latest issue of Mat Gleason’s
Coagula
, a free magazine that came out every two months and was left — often by Gleason himself — in big messy stacks beside the front door.
Chris Kraus
Have Pamphlet, Will Travel: Mid-list authors pushing not-so-recently published books
An informal circuit of poets, essayists, explorers, magicians, and gurus, as well as reams of flyers, posters, and pamphlets produced to promote them.
Gary Dauphin
Magazine Bazaar: John Kennedy, publisher of
Haunted Attraction
I can tell you that after making my way through 235 haunted houses… nothing scares people like a chainsaw.
Michael C. Vazquez
The Bead Thief: Not all theft is forbidden
A good theft is “artistic,” according to my father. “Sometimes you have to get up, run off, put the misbah in your car, and dash back before anyone notices. So that when they ask to look in your pockets, they’re empty.”
Fatima Al Qadiri
Mohamed Soueid
Like a detective or therapist, he waits, listens, and takes his time.
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Don’t Believe the Hypernova: The making of an Iranian band
Pink Floyd is so big. And Dire Straits.
Bidoun
How’s Business: Tarek Wazef: Language instructor, Al-Azhar University, Cairo
I studied Chinese at Al-Azhar University the first year the language was offered.
Tom Francis
How’s Business: Writer, New York City
There was talk of movie rights. My agent wrote a note to one editor saying he thought the appeal of the book was “deep,” and that the fact that it was as yet “unreported” made it all the more appealing.
Gini Alhadeff
How’s Business: Don Sakai: Owner, Satsuma Imports, Los Angeles
My uncle built this store in 1939.
Kate Wolf
How’s Business: George Russell: Zoroastrian cemetery owner/operator, Huntsville, Texas
George Russell lives in Huntsville, Texas, otherwise known as the “City of Death,” the execution capital of the US.
Meera Subramanian
How’s Business: Vazeer Ahmed: Proprietor, Shabbir Pasha Steel Traders, Bangalore, India
Pasha’s office lies in the corner of a metal scrap yard piled high with old pump sets, girders, air conditioners, and wiring.
Ryan Lobo
How’s Business: M.: Project manager, DynCorp International, Kandahar, Afghanistan
Ramrod is a small military base at the edge of the Red Desert in Kandahar.
Elizabeth Rubin
How’s Business: Abdul Raheem: Tropical fish dealer, Bharat Fish Aquarium, Bangalore
Abdul Raheem sits on an ancient swivel chair next to an aquarium.
Ryan Lobo
Apocalypse
Avatar
: Today is a good day to die
The latest heir to Cotton Mather’s tale of moral tribulation on the frontier is James Cameron’s roundly acclaimed, two-billion-dollar grossing, wholly ridiculous science fiction film
Avatar
.
Gary Dauphin
Freedom of Expression
Boru O’Brien O’Connell
Group Material: A History of Irritated Material
The late Félix González-Torres used to call Group Material (GM), the New York–based artist-activist collective of which he was a core member for some time, “the best-kept secret in the art world.
Sam Thorne
Tayy El Khiyaam
In the first piece in the short fiction collection
Tayy El Khiyaam
, a young man of Bedouin descent chafes at his grandfather’s yearly repayment of a blood debt to members of another tribe.
Ursula Lindsey
The Strong Horse
On September 20, 2001, President George W.
Issandr El Amrani
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