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When President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announces a project, it's usually of the mega scale variety. In March 2013, when he was still minister of defense, Sisi launched a mass housing scheme to…
A group of students were protesting in front of Mansoura University last year, amid the heavy crackdown on campus dissent. The ensuing arrests did not leave bystanders out. Ibrahim Reda,…
Taher Chikhaoui suggests that a new reality is creating a shift in cinematic language that leaves more space for interpretation.
Boredom can often be a great entry point for experimentation. A couple of months ago, some friends and I were in Sahel, oppressed by the gloomy overcast post-summer season. Rather…
Lucy is a cosmopolitan lad with a foreign accent and a masters in modern dance in this brilliantly cast romcom
As you repose on the wooden chairs in downtown Cairo’s Townhouse Rawabet theater, the rubble of the city fazes out and you prepare to enter another zone. It's dark — only…
Since the start of the Arab uprisings over three years ago, regional onlookers have often turned to Tunisia for answers. While other countries have descended into turmoil or seen their…
"Security restrictions, iron gates and thorough inspections did not succeed in preventing student rioting, but contributed to its increase," wrote Al-Masry Al-Youm in the aftermath of October 11, the day after public universities…
This conversation is part of issue 1 of Status Hour, an emerging collaborative monthly audio journal from the Arab World and beyond. The night before his last detention on October 21,…
The Last Supper hits home with its shrewd and darkly comedic take on all that is wrong with Egyptian society today.
One night in September, a boat carrying over 200 refugees was brought in to Alexandria by the Egyptian Navy under the halcyon orange of the port at Rasateen. The refugees…
The scarcity of talented writers and the small size of the industry sometimes gives people a bigger status than they deserve, don’t you agree?
Galal Zekri-Chatila is taking Sophia on a tour around Egypt. Their adventure covers a distance of 7,000 km over a period of four months. Their goal is to cover every…
MF Kalfat on Nadine Labaki's 2011 film Where Do We Go Now?
Short-lived artist-run spaces, imaginary schools, newspapers set up by groups of journalists, rooftop supper clubs and online metal concerts — DIY initiatives seem to be all the rage in Cairo…
My favorite hangout for a brief couple of weeks was a street, a simple street in a Cairo neighborhood. Kamal al-Tawil street is dimly lit and overlooks the Nile from…
The Ministry of Tourism launched a new trip on October 21 that follows the path the holy family purportedly took through Egypt, in an effort to encourage different types of…
November is an exciting month for Cairene cinephiles. Two highly anticipated festivals have movie watchers on the edge of their seats, and there’s a couple of good films playing in…
Yasmine Hamed worked hard to save money for her marriage five years ago. But by the time her daughter Jannah was old enough for school, she realized that the savings…
The owners of seven private newspapers convened a meeting on Saturday to establish the “Chamber of Private Press Industries,” and begin the process of registering this new body under the umbrella…
