#Beirut Art Center
New types of memories in Lebanese art
Mai Elwakil reviews the Exposure 2013 exhibition at Lebanon's Beirut Art Center.
Mai Elwakil
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أرشيف
التقارير
3,712 تقرير منشور حتى الآن.
#interim government
A window of opportunity
As Egypt waits to elect a new parliament, the transitional government appears to be taking advantage of this window of opportunity to rush through new laws with the approval of…
Heba Afify
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#Egyptian cuisine
Abdu Talawos: From food cart to restaurant chain
Legend has it that when Abdu Talawos (or Abdu Pollution) was still a humble food cart selling liver sandwiches in the street, a cat fell into the tahina bowl. Hajj…
Heba Afify
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#committee of 50
Constitutional wrangling
As Egyptians wait for a final date to vote in the referendum on the draft constitution, advocacy and rights groups have time to take stock of the gains and losses…
Mai Shams El-Din
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#environment
Get on your bike for Friday’s ‘A Greener Maadi Festival’
Local environmental groups are joining forces to host “A Greener Maadi Festival” on Friday on Maadi’s Road 9. The event will see the closure of Road 9 from Medan al-Mahata…
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#Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF)
Anxiety is the new self-producing work ethic
What does it mean for this kind of post-internet work to be randomly inserted into Cairo’s visual vernacular?
Ania Szremski
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#architecture
Learning from Cairo
Last April a group of activists, academics, architects and those who have become obsessed, in one way or another, with the failures and future of megacities, met at the American University…
Ursula Lindsey
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#book reviews
Discipline, dread and the estate
A photo of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser is one of a few decorations in the office of Mahmoud Sayem, the director of the Spinning and Weaving Syndicate. Above…
Jahd Khalil
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#furniture
IKEA comes to Cairo
IKEA is perhaps the most anticipated store to open in Cairo since GAP and Victoria’s Secret. Known for good deals, good quality and a DIY (do it yourself) policy, the…
Nevine El-Shabrawy
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#100Copies
Band of the week: Mahmoud Refat
He’s always pushing sonic boundaries while still engaging listeners, luring post-rave refugees into a visceral journey of glitchy roads and intelligent techno.
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#cinema
‘The Square’: An impossible task
As post-revolutionary Egypt gets more complicated, Jehane Noujaim's film simplifies things more and more.
Jenifer Evans
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#Ahmad Abdalla
Breakfast with Mada: Discussing ‘Rags and Tatters’
"Maybe it’s about the revolution, but it’s definitely not about Tahrir or January 25, or the way we were romanticizing it," says Ahmad Abdalla about Rags and Tatters.
Mada Masr
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#7 am movement
Making an example
Each day Lobna Youssef Mohamed leaves home, hoping she will get to wave at her daughter through a small window. But even if she does get a glimpse, she can…
Naira Antoun و Lindsey Parietti
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#cinema
Short films make a big splash at Panorama
Imagine an Egypt where stereotypical gender roles are reversed — an Egypt where men stay home cooking, cleaning and raising children while their wives are out bringing home the bread.…
Maha ElNabawi
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#cinema
‘The Square’ shortlisted for Oscar, Egypt premiere canceled
“The Square,” a documentary film by Egyptian-American director Jehane Noujaim about the January 2011 revolution, is among 15 films selected for the Oscar shortlist for documentary features in 2014. Just one day after the…
Maha ElNabawi
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#Al-Azhar University
Campus divided
Since the start of the academic year, university campuses have become the new battleground between the military-backed government and the deposed Muslim Brotherhood, but increasing police brutality has shifted the…
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#Darb 1718
‘Brain Damage’: A varied and refreshing painting show
'Brain Damage' emphasizes painting as a living and contemporary medium that can engage the public.
Mai Elwakil
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#Ahmed Abdel Zaher
Fear of 4 fingers
A 15-year-old high school student has been arrested and is being held in administrative detention, accused of "owning a ruler with the Rabea al-Adaweya slogan." The Kafr al-Sheikh student was…
Ashraf Khalil
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#Ahmed Badry
Then, now, and ‘Roznama 2’
Unless text is truly part of the work, notes like this feel like a conceptual get-out-of-jail-free card for works that supposedly need explanation
Mia Jankowicz
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#Alan Bishop
Band of the week: The Invisible Hands
You can’t catch every show you’re supposed to. Especially in Egypt, where politics and life come crashing together with such force that you can simply be swept away, tangled in…
Maha ElNabawi
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