The Bee Kingdom is a project by New York artist and writer Joy Garnett. It draws on her recent research and life-long search for her late grandfather, the 20th century Egyptian Romantic poet Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955). Through creative writing, painting, photography, printmaking, and social media projects, The Bee Kingdom asks how past, present, and future narratives can co-exist through ‘the archive’ in its various forms. Joy’s artworks and writings have appeared, sometimes side-by-side, in an eclectic array of publications, including Evergreen Review, Ibraaz, Ping Pong, Edible Brooklyn, C Magazine, and The Artists’ and Writers’ Cookbook. She is working on a family memoir of Egypt. For information visit http://thebeekingdom.art
“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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