التقارير – Page 172

Egypt’s cinematic gems: ‘The White Rose’

One of the first popular films to tackle Egypt’s stark class system that still endures today

Maha ElNabawi February 8, 2014 7 دقيقة قراءة

Eating clean

With New Year’s resolutions behind us and spring on the horizon (peak time for getting ready for summer), people are constantly trying to find the easiest and fastest…

Nevine El-Shabrawy February 6, 2014 4 دقيقة قراءة

#artist profiles

Humor and the aesthetics of sadness

No matter how hard she tries, Monira Al Qadiri seems incapable of producing art that is conventionally tragic.

Mai Elwakil February 6, 2014 8 دقيقة قراءة

#Cairo bombings

The past and future of the bomb-damaged manuscript museum

Early on January 24, 2014, a bomb exploded in front of the Cairo Security Directorate, just across the street from a neo-Mamluk building which many know as the Museum of Islamic Art.…

Elena Chardakliyska February 5, 2014 8 دقيقة قراءة

#2012 presidential elections

Where are they now?

With three of the presidential hopefuls from 2012 languishing in jail pending trials, and a fourth deceased, the political plans and presidential ambitions of most of the remaining candidates remain…

Jano Charbel February 4, 2014 9 دقيقة قراءة

#Mada Mix

Band of the week: Zaman al-Zaatar

I remember a boat trip. Fifteen of us float up the Nile on a felucca; mostly journalists, activists and artists — even some folk formerly from Al Jazeera. The wind…

Maha ElNabawi February 4, 2014 4 دقيقة قراءة

#6th of October city restaurants

A Cairo carnivore’s sanctuary

I’m a carnivore, and I’m not ashamed — I love meat, and I revere a tender and juicy medium-well steak. Charwood's has always been my destination whenever my cannibalistic craving…

Amany Ali Shawky February 3, 2014 3 دقيقة قراءة

#activists

Lexicon of a revolution’s insults

A dictionary of labels invented after January 25, 2011, compiled by Andeel.

Andeel February 3, 2014 8 دقيقة قراءة

#Ahmed Galal

Economy in a week: Power cuts and financial stimulus

Egypt has been experiencing another wave of blackouts throughout the country, caused by energy shortages and a deeply indebted Ministry of Electricity. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Ahmed Galal says the Gulf…

Sherif Zaazaa February 2, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#Italian cuisine

Maadi pizzerias offer the full array

Finding good pizza in Maadi has never been a real issue. Pizza Hut, Dominos and Little Caesars chose the Cairean suburb as their step two or three in the franchising…

Nevine El-Shabrawy February 1, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#cinema

Egypt’s cinematic gems: ‘Love in the Refrigerator’

Ali Abdel Mohsen on a howling stray dog of a sci-fi movie.

Ali Abdel Mohsen February 1, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#India

Indian dance music throws political punch

I was invited to India to cover the seventh Jaipur Literary Festival — but while there, I also looked toward the vast musical landscape in hopes of better understanding a country I know…

Maha ElNabawi January 31, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#2014 presidential elections

A new, but not so new, regime

Mada Masr speaks with Joshua Stacher, assistant professor of political science at Kent State University, about the political steps Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi needs to take as he prepares…

Jahd Khalil January 31, 2014 8 دقيقة قراءة

#Chinese community

Friday ushers in Year of the Horse

According to the Chinese calendar, Friday January 31 marks the end of the year of 4711 and the beginning of the year 4712 — the Year of the Horse. The…

Nevine El-Shabrawy January 31, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#Muslim Brotherhood arrests

Too many to count

Amr was on his way to buy groceries from the supermarket when he disappeared. “We tried calling him for hours, and then eventually his phone was switched off,” says Amr’s…

Sarah Carr و Leyla Doss January 31, 2014 4 دقيقة قراءة

#anti-terrorism law

Terrorist or scapegoat?

The crowd that gathered at the bombed Cairo Security Directorate on Friday January 24 chanted anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans, calling for the execution of former President Mohamed Morsi. But the Brotherhood,…

Sarah Carr و Leyla Doss January 31, 2014 13 دقيقة قراءة

#Mohamed Morsi jailbreak case

In second court date, Morsi struggles to be heard from his glass cage

Standing in a soundproof glass cage, deposed President Mohamed Morsi made his second public appearance since his July ouster on Tuesday in the first session of what his lawyers described…

Sarah El Sirgany January 30, 2014 5 دقيقة قراءة

#Interior Ministry

The police are back, but for how long?

Perhaps the people happiest with humankind's failure to turn the sci-fi legend of time machines into reality are Egypt's policemen. Three years ago, and more specifically by the dawn of…

Mohamad Salama Adam January 30, 2014 11 دقيقة قراءة

#Doctors for Egypt

Syndicates: Loss of the MB’s last stronghold

The Muslim Brotherhood appears to be losing its grip on many of Egypt’s professional syndicates, which it has dominated for over two decades. Most recently the Brotherhood was voted out…

Jano Charbel January 30, 2014 8 دقيقة قراءة

#India

A fairytale from India’s Jaipur Literary Festival

When 81-year-old Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gave the keynote address at the opening of India’s seventh annual Jaipur Literary Festival, he chose a fairytale format. He said he came across the Goddess of Medium Things high…

Maha ElNabawi January 30, 2014 7 دقيقة قراءة