FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
The Bee Kingdom Limited Edition Prints
The Bee Kingdom is a family memoir that focuses on the life of my maternal grandfather, Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955), renowned Egyptian poet, bee scientist, publisher, and polymath.
Trained in London as a physician and bacteriologist, Abushady became interested in beekeeping, co-operative movements and agricultural reform. He launched and edited two important bee science journals in England (Bee World, 1919-present) and in Alexandria, Egypt (The Bee Kingdom, 1930-1938). He is best known for having founded and edited the influential poetry journal Apollo (1932–34) and Apollo's Society, a group of poets from across the Arab world whose new and experimental approaches ushered in the Modernist movement in Arabic poetry.
Read more about Abushady here.
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The Bee Kingdom includes an extensive visual archive of photographs, ephemera, drawings and paintings by Abushady and his circle. In September 2013, I will be teaming up with USA Projects to raise funds so I can begin to organize, index, translate and digitize this archive.
To help fund this ongoing effort, I will offer for sale limited edition prints based on images from The Bee Kingdom archive: a technical drawing for Abushady's honeycomb patent (1919) and a caricature of Abushady by the Alexandrian Persian artist Mohamed Fridon (1928).
The editions (lithographs, 11 x 14 inches) will be produced with New York printer Shannon Broder. The sale will launch in September. Watch this space for details.
