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Clapping along with everyone else: A short play about a dance meeting
We are offered plenty of themes to choose from. But there’s one particularly disputed premise: What does it mean to be an independent artist?
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Surprise unto death: The legend of Sinwar
Even in his final moments, Yahya Sinwar was marked by all the hallmarks of a legend.
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Midnight in Cairo: A Conversation with Raphael Cormack
Ifdal Elsaket discusses "Midnight in Cairo" with author, Raphael Cormack
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Podcast | Katalog #2: Dina El Wedidi
When I heard the train, I heard a full band. It was great — there were so many different sounds.
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Captain Ghazali: We will sharpen bones and from them build our cannons
In 1967 Ghazali decided to resist the Sinai occupation through music
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Egyptian mimes challenge and entertain with silence
In the deafening Egyptian capital, a small group of independent artists quietly present an art relying on everything the performer has to give — except their voices.
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A beginner’s guide to downtown’s alternative art scene
Downtown Cairo has long had a strong relationship with the arts. It boasts the capital’s largest cluster of theaters, cinemas and intellectual cafes, and is one of very…
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Update: Internet, cell phone networks restored in North Sinai following deadly bombing
Internet and telephone connections were restored in the restive North Sinai peninsula on Friday night hours after a deadly bombing at a military checkpoint killed at least 27…
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Vent: Party den or culture venue?
It’s 11:30 pm on Thursday in downtown Cairo. About 200 people are at the opening of the new performance space, bar and café, Vent.
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Contemporary Dance Center up in the air
The Cairo Contemporary Dance Center, the first professional training program of its kind in Egypt, opened in January 2012. It was housed and funded by the Culture Ministry…
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Stick dancing revitalized
Often when I attend shows of popular art forms from different parts of Egypt, something leaves me a little uncomfortable, but I swallow it down to enjoy the…
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We are all complicit
The audience is not simply watching a play; we become unwitting attendees at a public meeting.