The Bee Kingdom (thebeekingdom.art) is a project by New York artist Joy Garnett. Drawing on materials left behind by her late grandfather, Egyptian Romantic poet Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955), The Bee Kingdom foregrounds alternative histories through creative writing, visual media, and social media, to ask how past, present, and future narratives can co-exist through the archive in its various forms.
ART
Please visit: http://thebeekingdom.art
WRITING
Please visit: http://thebeekingdom.art/writing
and: http://thebeekingdom.art/the-bee-keepers-library
RESEARCH
Please visit: http://thebeekingdom.art/interviews-articles

The Bee Kingdom draws on research around the life and times of Garnett’s late grandfather, 20th century Egyptian modernist poet Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955).


“Immigrant Zero” by Maged Atiya (March 29, 2015) commemorates the anniversary of A.Z. Abushady’s death (April 12, 1955), and the plight of Egyptian liberal thinkers. Read it on his blog, SalamaMousa: reclaiming Egypt
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