Three takes on Third World War
Amany Ali Shawky, Jenifer Evans and Andeel give their views on Ahmed al-Gendy’s new comic blockbuster.
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Amany Ali Shawky, Jenifer Evans and Andeel give their views on Ahmed al-Gendy’s new comic blockbuster.
“You’re going to pay means you’re going to pay,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on the day of the new Suez Canal project’s inauguration. His statement was directed at businessmen…
There’s no mistaking the message officials and private sector players were pushing at the opening of this year’s Euromoney Egypt Conference, whose titular theme is already a dead giveaway: stability,…
It's difficult to complain about a combination of friends, beaches, live music and good vibes, especially if you hail from Cairo.
As political forces brace for parliamentary elections in Egypt, which were once scheduled to take place before the end of the year, a web of political coalitions reveals fragmentation within…
On September 18 in Dahab, an Egyptian is set to break the world record in open circuit scuba diving, by plunging to a depth of 350 meters. Ahmed Gabr dreamed…
Throughout the film’s multi-layered body a suppressed steaming power boils inside, looking for a crack to explode out of.
Amany Ali Shawky, Jenifer Evans and Andeel each give their views on Marwan Hamed's massive psychological thriller.
The Citizen Kane of Egyptian cinema, a technical masterpiece with a formidable reputation and an unhurried pace
Embratoreyet Meen? (Whose Empire?), one of the television series screened this Ramadan, is a light and family-oriented black comedy that narrates a version of the January 25 revolution and its…
Egypt’s highways are littered with billboards promoting lush satellite cities full of green lawns, golf courses and swimming pools. Developments like The Waterway boast of incorporating “the soothing presence of…
While listening, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m standing on the edges, fingers splayed on the glass, watching something emotional take place. And while my presence isn’t particularly unwelcome,…
At a time when Egyptian society seems to be trapped in a vortex of distortion and confusion around religious norms, the state has made a new attempt to reinforce its…
It wouldn’t be easy to definitively categorize Tawfiq Saleh as a Marxist filmmaker, but his works are examples of a conscious art.
Until mid-2013, Nader,* a 25-year-old graduate of the Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, worked as a salesman in a Tommy Hilfiger store in 6th of October City’s Mall of Arabia…
Ismail Fayed is left wondering if the regime is asserting the presence of the military even through niche practices such as scenography.
After deciding that the financing needs of the Suez Canal development project will be pooled from investment certificates made available to the public, authorities have announced that Egyptian pound-denominated certificates…
When a few fateful retweets put me into contact with Egyptian-American poet and “seeker” Yahia Labadidi, I didn’t expect to come across an author whose work sounds such depth. A…
This overlooked masterpiece, once banned, ends with a hysterical call for continued resistance
Who holds alternative cultural institutions accountable for their choices, expenditures or agendas?