Egypt’s cinematic gems: A Place for Love
A photojournalist approaches a woman in a café hosting his exhibition about the aftermath of the 1967 war in Suez
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A photojournalist approaches a woman in a café hosting his exhibition about the aftermath of the 1967 war in Suez
Touted as Egypt’s national project of the century, the construction of a navigational bypass known as the “New Suez Canal” is projected to replenish the state’s coffers with billions, while…
I believe that life is made of choices, not between mainstream and underground, but between struggling to continue and giving up.
Media statements by a number of leading Muslim Brotherhood figures over their intention to leave Qatar have stirred questions about the shift in the official position of the Qatari government…
When Egypt finally approved a feed-in tariff on September 16, the move was initially hailed as the government’s first clear indication of how they plan to integrate private energy projects…
The political future of Islamist groups in Egypt is still up in the air, as rumors of closed-door meetings ahead of the parliamentary elections prompt both Islamists and government officials…
Due to its highly political nature, the many phases of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, his minister of interior and aides has been closely watched, capturing…
In this dark joke of a movie, an elevator is a miniature version of the newly class-conscious Egypt
Introduction by Elliott Colla: Like hundreds of other prisoners of conscience now languishing in Sisi's prisons, Ahmed Douma has a long background in activism. One of the founders of Kefaya…
The "trial of the century” — in which former President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, the former interior minister and six of his aides are accused of killing protesters, making illicit…
In Bassem Yousri’s RGB (1), the artist’s mind seems to explode onto the gallery walls in a fragmented display of painted drawings on canvases of varying sizes.
Three weeks ago, the government began to clear street vendors from Downtown Cairo, where they had filled up both pavements and streets. Now the vendors have been relocated to Turgoman,…
In a memorial organized by the Law and Society Research Unit and the Law Department at the American University in Cairo, colleagues and family members of late human rights defender…
With Egypt’s tourism numbers plunging and unemployment rising in the past months, one company is trying to give one of the country’s highest revenue earning sectors an innovative push. Tayarah,…
Having swung from anti-colonial to glamorizing before becoming more complicated due to conflict, conscription was used in film to discuss corruption and revolution during the Mubarak era, and became quite…
Egyptian cinema may be criticized for poor effects, overrated acting and commercial tendencies. Yet it does discuss controversial topics in the society it comes from, as art should. One such…
Visitors to Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project, an exhibition at Darb 1718 in Old Cairo, are greeted by a floor-to-ceiling heap of rubbish.
On a warm evening in June 2013, a Turkish activist named Bulent Muftuouglu was on his way to a concert and protest in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, site of what would become a…
Darine Hotait moves to a small table in the corner of the room, reaches for her “magic box” and takes out five black-and-white photographs. "I want you to write a…
I’d been trying to find an ethical reason for why Youssef Chahine's movies didn’t appeal to me.