Listen to Joobin Bekhrad’s chat with NYC-based rock and roller Rahill Jamalifard degenerate into one about Iranian supermarkets, washed-up pop stars, and chelo kabab
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REORIENT Radio - Ibi Ibrahim
For the debut episode of our new podcast series, REORIENT founder and Editor Joobin Bekhrad chats with Berlin-based Yemeni artist Ibi Ibrahim about his new band, Kabreet
Hye Times
US-based DJ and filmmaker Lara Sarkissian - alternatively known as Foozool - presents a playlist of vintage tracks from her mother’s stash of Armenian and Persian vinyl records
Remembering Tomorrow
Magic of Persia’s Shirley Elghanian gives Joobin Bekhrad the skinny on her foundation’s upcoming exclusive gala and auction of contemporary Iranian art in Dubai
Shiny Happy People
‘In a way, we put photography on the map in the Middle East, and people started to talk about it, even if they didn’t understand it’ - Reem Al Faisal in conversation with Joobin Bekhrad
Initials B.B.
Joobin Bekhrad talks to France-based artist and entrepreneur Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar about his new foundation and his ambitions to shake up the contemporary Iranian art scene
New Horizons
Contemporary Istanbul’s Burcu Öztürkler gives a taste of things to come at the 2015 edition of the art fair featuring a special focus on Tehran
Pictures of You
Little did Ania Dabrowska know that when she stepped into a Camden Town hostel, she would chance upon boxfuls of treasures from Lebanon’s past
Cold Turkey
Turkish artist Nazif Topçuoğlu gives Joobin Bekhrad the skinny on his career, his detractors, and the trials of producing art in present-day Istanbul
State of the Art
Ahead of the third edition of ArtInternational Istanbul, Joobin Bekhrad talks to museum owner Sevda Elgiz and curator Başak Şenova about the fair, their projects, and the Turkish art scene