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It’s been a while since I’ve blacked out to live music. And no, I don’t mean the kind of alcohol-induced blackout that usually comes about from slamming back too many…
While the cancellation of the 36th Cairo Film Festival sent a ripple of concern through Egypt’s film community, if all goes as planned local film events may prove more resilient that most give them…
A Q&A with Hassan al-Geretly, director of Egypt’s oldest independent theater troupe Al-Warsha, which was established in 1987.
In 2007, renowned trade unionist and opposition figure Kamal Abu Eita led thousands of workers on strikes and sit-ins outside the Cabinet. One uprising and an election later, more mass…
Stories make both a big and small claim to knowledge and truth: small in that a story does not claim to represent more than a person’s experience, and big in…
Amr al-Shora is doing battle again, this time in the Doctors Syndicate elections. Shora is running as part of the Independent List of syndicate board candidates seeking to oust the overwhelmingly…
In one corner of the capital, a competition for fast-food restaurants leads in numerical supremacy, and this has turned Zamalek into a cacophonous food court. But off the Nile Corniche…
It is the fall of 2000, and a group of young university students, actors and a couple of stagehand personnel are lurking in the darkness of the college theater. I’m…
In a turbulent political climate, the Ministry of Endowments is once again at the heart of a standoff, facing accusations of serving certain agendas as political Islam struggles to survive.…
Days after security forces stormed the Minya village of Delga and arrested dozens of residents following a month of sectarian violence, two women stand at their doorstep watching police forces…
In the boom times over the past few years, sections of Gaza’s southern borderline resembled a busy shipping terminal, with trucks hauling loads of smuggled cargo from the vast network…
“Egypt is known to the world for its quality long-staple cotton.” This line would resonate to almost all Egypt’s schoolchildren taught to take pride in their country’s agricultural wealth, marked…
Q&A with Medrar director Mohamed Allam about a festival that has screened hundreds of experimental and low-budget video works from around the world.
As a foreigner in Egypt, I have always been fascinated by the world of non-imported candy. Finding these candies was a true quest, with such beloved favorites as 5x5, Bimbo,…
An ambiguous architectural form has been erected in the center of Rabea al-Adaweya Square, which housed a sit-in held by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi for six weeks before…
It’s going to be difficult for you to like mahraganat if you’re the kind of person who asks the waiter in the sheesha place for the plastic thingy that they…
Following the formation of the current government headed by Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawi, hopes were high for a brief moment as many thought that revolutionary elements within the Cabinet might lead the…
Dust and desert. Dust and road. Dust and checkpoints. Turn left. Dust and tombs. Dust and dust. Dust and farms. Dust and shacks. You’re in. Dust and trucks. Dust and…
Minister of Planning Ashraf al-Araby declared Egypt’s GDP growth should reach 2.3 percent for fiscal year 2012/13. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finances released the first preliminary figures for fiscal year…
For the past month, much of Cairo’s social scene has moved indoors. People watch television, experiment with cooking, eat, post their activity on Twitter, and spend the evening with family.…
