If you like my blog, I recommend you check out the Fall 2005 issue of Bidoun, a both hip and insightful magazine on Middle Eastern Culture and Arts. They really have their pulse on contemporary Middle Eastern politics and art. Also, in this issue you can see "A project by the artists Yto Barrada and Simona Schneider looks at the iconography of local economies, here in the form of the exchange of cigarettes in one Moroccan town (Tangier). " Unfortunetly this content is not online, but other articles are so you can get a feel for the magazine and those will hopefully inspire you to want to see more. Happy reading. http://www.bidoun.com/