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Shubra al-Kheima is at the end of the line. From the lofty vista of its metro station, it is as if a giant broom had swept away the unwanted detritus…
I have written “Out of Egypt” as a mark of the end of my many years in Egypt, teaching at the American University in Cairo. It is a kind of…
I pull up to Bongoz studio in the leafy Cairo suburb of Maadi one evening to meet Arabic reggae-infused rock band Sharmoofers. Two of them, 25-year-old Moe al-Arkan and 32-year-old Ezz…
Despite its confused feminist message, this movie does tackle class reconciliation, birth control and internal migration
Tashkent 1958. I try and imagine it for a moment. The first conference of the Afro-Asian Writers is in session.
The barbed wire blocking the road is the only indication of the whereabouts of presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign headquarters, located in the posh Al-Showaifat area in the Northern Cairo…
On the evening of March 5, 2011, then 19-year-old Tony Sabry was sheltered beneath a blanket as he participated in a sit-in for the first time in his life in…
Maha Maamoun's show at Gypsum Gallery had much to do with the city of Cairo, with nature and poetry, with the overlooked and the overheard.
“We are all corrupt, no exceptions, even with helpless silence, we are corrupt.”
Street harassment is not a theme but should be taken on as a structural condition, as unavoidable to reality and consciousness as street paving or rotund aunts shoving past you…
On May 5, at the height of a heat wave that brought electricity blackouts back to Cairo with a vengeance, news of a potential gas export deal from Israel to…
April was a busy month for art aficionados in Cairo. Several exhibitions, performances and talks opened across the city. Many venues also hosted the third edition of the Downtown Contemporary…
Following a meeting with concerned Sharm el-Sheikh residents, Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb has halted work on a cliff restoration project until safety and environmental concerns are addressed. The project, which…
When you stop a taxi and ask the driver to take you to Ard al-Lewa, the answer will almost always be “I’ll drop you off outside.” The heavily populated area…
Your dance movements are your only means of expression between a folkloric past and funky, fidgety future.
The pilot phase of the March Project proved to be an exciting addition to the Sharjah Art Foundation’s programs.
Ashraf expects to wait when he goes door to door in Cairo's Ain Shams neighborhood to collect payment on electricity bills. Usually, he's faced with a request to come back…
As with other realms of expression, the story of sound in Egypt is also one of dispute over who controls the record and its means of dissemination.
A recent statement by the Ministry of Interior on March 11 announced that private security companies would be used to secure football matches at stadiums across Egypt in response to…
In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Malik Bendjelloul asked where Sixto Rodriguez was. Wim Wender’s “Buena Vista Social…
