#DMC
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Islam Salah al-Din
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#film reviews
The reductive realism of Capernaum
The world of Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Capernaum (2018) feels a little bit too chaotic
Hessen Hossam
7 دقيقة قراءة
#1919 revolution
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of the 1919 revolution?
I want to question the approach that treats the 1919 revolution as a single narrative, condensing it
Hakim Abdelnaeem
15 دقيقة قراءة
#Cairo Contemporary Dance School (CCDC)
nasa4nasa: The Cairo-based dance collective leaps from Instagram to the squash court
In December 2016, an Instagram account appeared under the name “nasa4nasa.” Its first post was a flickering, GIF-like slow-motion video capturing a smiling duo holding matching table tennis rackets, a…
Sara Elkamel
15 دقيقة قراءة
#Cairo Cinema Days
Cairo Cinema Days 3: Our recommendations
2018 was a prolific year for Arab cinema, as evident from the line-up of this year’s Cairo Cinema Days. The third edition of the Zawya-organized event (the first to be…
Leila Arman و Mohamed al-Amin +2
34 دقيقة قراءة
#1919 revolution
How ordinary Egyptians embodied nationalism around the 1919 revolution
An interview with Ziad Fahmy
Osman El Sharnoubi
14 دقيقة قراءة
#novels
In search of a ‘personal’ Coptic discourse: Shady Lewis on his debut novel
Turuq al-Rab is remarkable for its unprecedented exploration of the life of its Coptic protagonist
Lena Naassana
13 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
A slice of life in a Sudanese prison
On the recently issued reproduction of Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Prison Notebook
Mai Elwakil
5 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
Osama Fawzi: A Thousand and One Nights in Helwan
Bassam Mortada’s recollection of his early initiation into the unique world of Osama Fawzi’s films
Bassam Mortada
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#exhibition reviews
The Giza Zoo as colonial archive
Bryony Dunne spotlights the establishment’s layered history in Istanbul show
Sara Elkamel
7 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
The Wardrobe Man, or how to create a biography from an archive
A conversation about Egyptian artist Bassem Yousri's film about a Danish hermit
Lina Attalah
24 دقيقة قراءة
#videos
Video | Singing Outside the Box
Vocal artist Dalia Younis often asks herself, “When is the last time you did something brand new?”
Menem Sami
1 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
After the tourists: Dreamaway’s stark collage of a desolate Sharm El-Sheikh
Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke's doc offers strong commentary on desperate youth in an arid market
Omar Elkafrawy
5 دقيقة قراءة
#literature
‘Trying hard to get out of my skin’: A conversation on Waguih Ghali’s multiple selves
On Waguih Ghali's birthday, a talk with Zainab Magdy about the writer and his life
Sara Elkamel
21 دقيقة قراءة
#Cairo Jazz Club
Found in Translation V: Singing the spiritual
The text is a three-part essay by Ahmed Shehab Eddine entitled “On Sufism and Hallucinogenic Drugs”
Mada Masr
4 دقيقة قراءة
#film criticism
Harun Farocki: Dialectics of images
Excerpts from an introduction to Harun Farocki’s oeuvre in relation to Egypt and the Arab region
Ali Hussein Al-Adawy
28 دقيقة قراءة
#exhibition reviews
Huda Lutfi creates a captivating world of silence in AUC show
Instead of the outside world of Cairo, we’re seeing the inside world of Huda.
Sara Elkamel
12 دقيقة قراءة
#literature
An intricate amalgam of love, sex and politics: Nobody Mourns the City’s Cats
Six stories about love and loss against the backdrop of a failed revolution
Sherif Abdel Samad
6 دقيقة قراءة
#architecture
Modernist Indignation: Two architects on the forgotten legacy of Sayed Karim
On the 108th birthday of visionary Egyptian architect Sayed Karim, we publish a conversation on Karim’s legacy: his philosophy, his aesthetic, and the political context in which he worked.
Mai Elwakil
34 دقيقة قراءة
#Cairo International Book Fair
50th Cairo International Book Fair: New and improved?
I was curious to see what would change after the book fair was moved to a new, more remote location
Mostafa Mohie
12 دقيقة قراءة
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