Notes to editors: WITH/WITHOUT Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East is a Bidoun book co-published by Middle East arts organisation Bidoun (www.bidoun.com) and Moutamarat (www.moutamarat.com), a joint venture between Tatweer and the Saudi Research and Publishing Company that creates platforms for developing the knowledge agenda of the Arab world. is priced at $25 / Dhs90 / £12.99, and is distributed via bookshops in the Middle East, Europe, UK and US. Distributors: Central Books (UK and Europe), D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers (USA). Please contact info[at]bidoun.com with all other enquiries. With/Without can also be ordered online at www.bidoun.com. is the first publication to address "spatial products, practices, and politics in the Middle East." Spatial products connote manufactured entities, such as buildings, public spaces, monuments, and transport infrastructures. Spatial practices describe an unwieldy cohort of professionals and amateurs whose work requires the imagining, configuring, or destruction of spaces. Spatial politics describes the ways in which spaces (often referred to as "territories"-occupied, contested, or otherwise) are an embedded instrument of political imagination or discourse. was first launched in Dubai at the International Design Forum, May 27, 2007. BIDOUN was created as a platform for ideas and a forum for exchange, dialogue, and opinions about arts and culture from the Middle East. We publish quarterly Bidoun magazine and Bidoun Books, and curate and commission artists' projects and events. www.bidoun.com MOUTAMARAT was created in July 2005 as a joint venture between Tatweer LLC, a Dubai Holding Company, and Saudi Research and Publishing Company. www.moutamarat.com The editors of the book are: Shumon Basar, a writer, editor, curator and lecturer, who holds positions at the Architectural Association and the Royal College of Art; Antonia Carver, an editor of Bidoun (www.bidoun.com) and Middle East correspondent for the Art Newspaper and Screen International; and Markus Miessen, a spatial consultant, cultural producer, and writer teaching at the Architectural Association in London, and a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths. Book details: Editors: Shumon Basar, Antonia Carver, Markus Miessen Managing editor: Antonia Carver Design: Jana Allerding, 9714 Format: 15x22 cm, 265 pages Publisher: Bidoun/Moutamarat Price: $25 / Dhs90 ISBN: 978-9948-03-453-7