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This seminar asks whether writing and language, like authors, are subject to economic forces and transformations to their subjectivity and psychology.
Jana Elhassan's bodice-ripping Floor 99 makes Ismail Fayed wonder about the criteria by which works are selected for the IPAF shortlist.
Thousands of workers across the country are protesting against what they call unfair employment with a spate of industrial actions that have picked up steam in recent weeks. Protests have been concentrated…
Ahmed Shawky’s Al-Garima and Omar El Zohairy’s Zafir both struggle with a similar set of questions, though in different ways.
This week several arts events continue in Cairo, including the Cairo Video Festival (see our ongoing festival blog), an exploratory group exhibition at Townhouse, a painting and drawing show at Gypsum,…
“The generals are upset because we have a student union president who speaks for detainees and is affiliated with January 25. There is a battle against the students and universities…
The theater is a stressful place during rehearsals, and stress levels increase as opening night draws near.
Friday prayers in mosques across Luxor ended uneventfully on December 4. They weren't followed by street demonstrations demanding retribution for Talaat Shabeeb, who was tortured to death a few days earlier…
ONE IMMATERIAL COLLECTION is a new series of annual video screening programs at Beirut Art Center (BAC). The title evokes Jalal Toufic's Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster, a…
Since the early 2000s, Egypt has seen the liberalization of the media market, with the state opening up media ownership to private players. A host of privately owned newspapers and…
Words become performative utterances that mold the space and, in the way they are spoken, their tone and pitch, contribute to the internal drive of Mark Lotfy’s films.
If you’re fascinated by the possibility of a critique that cares about its object, not the rampaging one so common today, you’ll find Laura U. Marks’ new book a delight.
The taxi application Uber has announced it will allow Cairo passengers to pay their rides in cash — but with minimum fares rising from LE8 to LE10, riders will be…
Months after his controversial decision to give himself power to remove immunized heads of supervisory bodies, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree Sunday appointing two deputies to Hesham Geneina,…
“December 12, 2015, will go down in the history of the planet. In Paris, we saw a few revolutions, but this is the most peaceful of all: a revolution for…
In addition to the just-begun Cairo Video Festival (screenings on Monday and Tuesday at the Institut Francais as well as exhibitions at Medrar and the Contemporary Image Collective), the ongoing…
Religious themes lend themselves nicely to the medium, and Nork Zakarian builds on this idea of ever-present video.
In April 2011, when the Arab Spring was still in its first bloom, then-World Bank President Robert Zoellick promised to usher in what he called “a new social contract for…
The poor image maintains its vitality through mobility. Not waiting to be seen, as conventionally exhibited artworks do, but streaking past as many eyeballs as possible as it transits digital…
The COP21 climate negotiations in Paris are entering a critical phase. In about 24 hours, 195 countries are expected to agree on a final text that aims to limit the…
