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The east Cairo Police Academy gives off a more serious vibe than its Tora counterpart when it temporarily turns into a courthouse. Former heads of state have stood trial here,…
What does winning the Golden Pyramid in 2015 stand for? The program and visual identity should reflect a vision, a set of concerns or questions.
Student union elections are due to start this week, but when the acting student union president at Al-Azhar University enquired about the schedule, he was told there is no information, despite other…
About five minutes in, each piece of art began triggering thoughts about my own moles.
Fi Youm interweaves the lives of six characters who live in contemporary Egypt. They are all struggling with an inefficient, aging and violent state that fails to provide its citizenry…
Perhaps the most unusual and therefore unmissable cultural event this week is a two-day tour through Alexandria led by visual artist Mahmoud Khaled. In Cairo, though, there is also the launch…
Each day, FestBeat is going to bring to you the latest buzz from the ground of the 37th Cairo International Film Festival.
As part of its Creative Cities conference hosted by the American University in Cairo, CLUSTER organized six tours, each looking at downtown Cairo through a different lens.
"On the banks of the river Nile, the future of Maspero burns bright.”
Mada Masr contributor Hossam Bahgat recently published a statement on his Facebook account in which he documents the events that took place during his three-day detention by military intelligence and…
With food prices soaring, Egypt’s government has vowed to take action. “Don’t think that the issue of inflation has passed me by,” President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, in a speech last…
Can the multiple visions for downtown Cairo coalesce to create more accessible, multifunctional public spaces without declawing the city's heart?
This is the week that the Cairo Film Festival begins, which as you can read here, is exciting and should keep you fairly busy culture-wise. But it’s important to note…
The clothes market in Bulaq doesn’t end. Just as the racks of clothing seem to be tapering off into residential streets, there’s an alleyway to your left, which branches off…
From Berlin to Medellín, Toronto to Dakar, urban gardening is growing in popularity. City dwellers around the world are cultivating their own food in small gardens, on rooftops, in abandoned…
Um Ghayeb is a deeply moving and engrossing portrait of Hanan, a woman from a countryside village near Assiut who is incapable of having children.
A marketing campaign on CIFF’s Facebook page asks the public to post videos of themselves playing charades in support of the festival
A year in the works, a draft law for the regulation of newspapers and media was completed in August. If passed, it would mean far greater regulation of Egypt’s digital…
Looking back at how Egypt's current trend for young, comic cinema began.
Shukri Mabkhout’s first novel starts with a bizarre tomb scene in which the main character beats to the ground an elderly imam reading the Quran at his father’s funeral.
