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“Villa 69,” which is currently playing in cinemas, incorporates a number of familiar faces from the non-mainstream Egyptian film scene. It’s the first feature film directed by Ayten Amin, who has worked…
Fitch Ratings has upgraded Egypt's credit rating to stable based on the relative improvement in the country's political situation and availability of foreign currency. Meanwhile, after the finance minister announced a…
On billboards that dot the country’s highways and roads, and on TV and radio airwaves, Egyptian citizens are surrounded by advertising campaigns urging them to vote for the draft constitution…
Folk, anti-folk, pop, anti-pop, avant-pop, electronica, noise? It’s hard to decide exactly which cookie-cut little genre singer/songwriter Aya Metwalli might fit into. Having begun singing publicly and releasing songs digitally…
Bahari broaches the fact that art about poverty, or even just art-making in general, is often exploitative
Doa Aly talks to Ania Szremski about Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries
With the constitutional referendum approaching, many non-Islamist parties that supported the military’s ouster of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated President Mohamed Morsi are still scrambling to define their positions on the charter. While…
The December 24 bomb attack in Mansoura didn’t just leave the security directorate building there in rubble. The following day, the government’s decision to brand the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist…
The flicker of hope for the student movement that was kindled at the start of 2013 was quickly overshadowed by deadly violence, leaving in its wake a trail of blood…
It’s another year down the drain for Egypt’s economy. Three years since the January 2011 revolution and little has been done to salvage what’s left of the crumbling economy, weighed…
Among many of the perceived differences between the January 25, 2011 and the June 30, 2013 mobilizations is a certain perception of the state. In 2011, in the minds of…
With many European countries lifting their travel bans on Egypt, the Egyptian government has been trying to reassure foreigners that Egypt is safe. Catherine Ashton's latest visit with her family…
In the early hours of Tuesday, December 24, an explosion rocked the city of Mansoura. Shaken out of their sleep by the blast, residents rushed to the streets as ambulance…
An alphabet of important cultural events from 2013.
Every once in a while, we get together to chat about our work and our evolving and mutating relation with it. We tend to turn these conversations into a public…
The year 2013 has been a controversial one for fashion. This two-faced year had its soft and rough edges. Although it brought back the finesse of the 1920s, it also…
Through its impact on the space itself, Abu Hamdan's work transcended both the nostalgia around cassette tapes and the fetishization of Cairo's noisiness.
As the year closes, Mada Masr remembers the moments of 2013. Through these images, by photographer Virginie Nguyen, we remember 12 months of tumultuous political events in Egypt, in which violence…
I’m sitting at a friend’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York, watching the snow fall outside the window while thinking of transience. My friend and I are both preparing to depart,…
This New Year’s Eve may be the first you’ll spend in the comfort of your home with a good movie and a box of pizza. But if you’re up for…
