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It wasn’t just the Interior Ministry, the Endowments Ministry and other state entities putting a damper on revolutionary sentiment in Cairo on Monday. Even the wet, cold and dismal weather seemed to…
Global conversations inspired by Egypt's January 25 uprising
Perhaps this trend reveals that what seemed to us right from the beginning as immediately cinematic – the big spectacle – is actually not what makes good cinema.
“We take courses in human rights, but where is it on the ground? I haven’t seen anything applied or in practice,” says a police officer who wishes to remain anonymous. Prompted…
Egypt’s security forces are making moves to thwart any attempts to collectively commemorate January 25 in downtown Cairo, where it all began five years ago. Government officials warned people against participating…
Looking back at some films that reflected the dissent that was building in the country is revealing.
On wrestling ambivalently with the collaborations between Egyptian and European modernists that have shaped our contemporary realities.
Perhaps culture isn’t uppermost in your mind at the start of this particular week.
Perhaps the most shocking implication of both Houellebecq‘s and Fishere’s novels is that tyranny presupposes the culpability of the people.
As the chief of an organization tasked with monitoring the performance of other government entities, it’s hardly surprising that Hesham Geneina, head of Egypt’s Central Auditing Authority (CAA) has never…
Andeel on England, comedy, Islamophobia and being politically correct.
Remembering it feels like remembering a happening that took place in a moment that was uncounted and ahistorical, almost like its own treatment of the literary experiences it discussed.
Dive right into this week's Cairo arts events with an experimental audio-visual experience tonight, or wait till tomorrow and either go to veteran filmmaker Mohamed Khan's book-signing or see a French film week…
Quick getaways keep me sane and able to deal with the crazy city I live in.
After a 2-year hiatus, the contemporary arts education space MASS Alexandria is preparing to reopen. Ilka Eickhof talks to incoming director Berit Schuck.
All eyes are now on parliament’s new committees and the laws they are in the process of reviewing, following the chaotic convening of the legislative body on January 10 and…
The walls of Al-Maqarr, a co-working space in Cairo’s eastern neighborhood of Heliopolis, are lined with images of its projects. "During college, we used to hold our meetings in cafes…
Although Ali Abdel Aal was arguably the expected winner of the post of parliamentary speaker, his election into the post took quite a bit of the newly convened parliament’s energy…
Never answered, the questions raised by these three post-defeat films came up again urgently in January 2011.
After Netflix offered tantalizing hints that it planned to launch in the Middle East, the US-based internet TV provider made its debut in Egypt (and most of the rest of…
