Mada’s Ramadan TV tips: What to watch and what to drop
A write up of what our culture and politics teams have been watching and whether we’d recommend anything to a wider audience...
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A write up of what our culture and politics teams have been watching and whether we’d recommend anything to a wider audience...
According to the Nuit Debout calendar, it was "March 45." It was 3:30 pm. Clamor. Shouting. Shots. Riot police were moving. People were running. Others just stepped aside. I poured…
At 9 pm on Tuesday, May 24, in a Giza prison, an appeal session was underway for 47 defendants accused of protesting on April 25 against the conceding of Tiran…
Music, film and some idiosyncratic tips from Andeel.
Even watching movies can make me feel like a subject of research in which my reactions are strictly linked to where I’m from and the conditions under which I live,…
There’s huge growth in skilled, youthful labor including architects and urbanists with no opportunities to practice in the classical sense, as well as a creative unskilled labor with a strong…
From Cairo, it can be easy to feel like the United States is an enthusiastic supporter of Egypt’s government, even as authorities in Cairo carry out a harsh crackdown on…
On April 30, 1966, Salah Hussein was assassinated by members of a feudalist family in Kamshish, a village located in Monufiya governorate in the heart of the Nile Delta. An…
Tucked in the heart of Islamic Cairo, Khayameya (the Tentmakers Market) is the go-to place for the Ramadan decorations that can now be seen all over Cairo. But the popular red-and-blue…
Egypt’s population is growing at a rate five times higher than that of developed countries, and twice as high as developing countries, according to the state-run Central Agency for Public…
In the second part of a two-part interview at Mada Masr’s office in Cairo, the author of bestseller “Capital in the 21st Century” talks about Egypt’s economic policies, French arms…
Arts-wise this week’s a slow week as Ramadan starts, giving a chance for people to binge on TV. See our round up of trends and phenomena in the upcoming shows here.…
In part one of a two-part interview at Mada Masr’s office in Cairo, the author of the bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Belknap Press, 2014) talks about inequality…
It looks like police thrillers, throwbacks and psychiatry will dominate this year.
Madhoun perpetuates in his prose the Palestine he was barred from entering for 38 years.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for his first, three-day state visit to Egypt. He is returning a visit that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a year ago…
A month after security forces stormed the Journalist Syndicate and arrested two reporters, the standoff between police and journalists continues. On Sunday, May 29, syndicate head Yehia Qallash and two…
An incisive view of the corrupt politics of Lebanon's civil war, but not much poetic insight.
"There are no longer the major stars, vedettes, which is true in the West, too. They don’t have the same style, the same glamor."
In the latest findings in the ongoing investigations into the deadly EgyptAir MS804 plane crash earlier this month, Egypt’s investigations committee announced that they received reports of European and American satellites receiving…