#documentary
Video | Avant-titre: A present from the past… why?
Ahmed Abo El Fadl takes us on a journey into personal cinema
Ahmed Abu al-Fadl
1 دقيقة قراءة
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#contemporary art
Intimate, visceral and unsettling: Walid Elsawi at Medrar
Home-production, "horror stories of human interaction" and wordplay: Walid Elsawi's VDU Art
Mai Elwakil
6 دقيقة قراءة
#electronic music
Mapping Possibilities: Audiovisual collective reimagines live performance
“At the beginning, it was just a slogan … Now, we are really mapping possibilities”
Peter Holslin
11 دقيقة قراءة
#Ahmad Abdalla
Dismantling moral binaries: Ahmad Abdalla’s EXT. Night questions class and gender dynamics in post-2013 Cairo
EXT. Night is an honest portrayal of a struggling city with insightful commentary on class dynamics
Nourhan Hesham
6 دقيقة قراءة
#exhibition reviews
A future possible?
Art which seeks to evade an established historical narrative without looking elsewhere: The Berlin Biennale
Ismail Fayed
12 دقيقة قراءة
#Zawya
Zawya 2.0: Between resilience and compromise
This could've been it: a very feasible ending for Zawya. But it's not. It's a new beginning
Yasmine Zohdi
32 دقيقة قراءة
#arts funding
Townhouse dips into the archive on its 20th anniversary: But where are the stories?
Sara ElKamel speaks with Townhouse's Mariam al-Nozahy about the gallery’s 20-year retrospective
Sara Elkamel
14 دقيقة قراءة
#Germany
The Lion and the Brown Witch: Reflections on this year’s Africa-focused Festival Theaterformen
Ismail Fayed reflects on Festival Theaterformen’s Africa-focused program in Brunswick, Germany
Ismail Fayed
11 دقيقة قراءة
#electronic music
Reclaiming the city’s dancefloors: JellyZone
A look at the DIY platform attempting to reshape Cairo’s club scene
Peter Holslin
10 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
A treasure trove of Egyptian food
An Iraqi food writer unearths and translates a manuscript on Egyptian medieval cooking
Hala N. Barakat
9 دقيقة قراءة
#Mada seminars
Grasping the messianic moment
A reflection on the 2016 “Mada Encounters” seminar on history and culture
Ismail Fayed
11 دقيقة قراءة
#Avant-titre
Avant-titre: Wes Anderson: Beyond symmetry
Is his style ingenious, or has it become redundant?
Ahmed Abu al-Fadl
1 دقيقة قراءة
#exhibition reviews
Wael Shawky’s sculptural works bring the bizarre, violent world of his films into the present
On 3 recent solo exhibitions of Wael Shawky’s work in Germany, Denmark and Italy
Dan Jakubowski
8 دقيقة قراءة
#contemporary art
Wonder, wander – No. 3: Time spills upward and downward, and all around
Conversations from this year’s Spring Sessions
Sara Elkamel
24 دقيقة قراءة
#comics
New Arabic translation gives Golo’s adaptation of Albert Cossery’s Proud Beggars more layers of life
Sherif Abdel Samad looks at the new Arabic translation of Golo’s and Albert Cossery’s Proud Beggars
Sherif Abdel Samad
13 دقيقة قراءة
#independent arts
More hurdles to clear: What a new committee organizing festivals means for the future of artistic events in Egypt
A decree issued last week imposes severe restrictions on the organization of art events in Egypt
Mada Masr
9 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s Cinematic Gems: The Open Door
Ismail Fayed explores Henry Barakat’s adaptation of Latifa al-Zayat’s 'The Open Door'
Ismail Fayed
8 دقيقة قراءة
#contemporary art
Wonder, wander – No. 2: Meandering, uncertain, predestined
Conversations from this year’s Spring Sessions
Sara Elkamel
20 دقيقة قراءة
#Avant-titre
Video | Avant-titre: 5 reasons why ‘No retreat, No surrender’ is the best Egyptian parody film
Ahmed Abu al-Fadl gives 5 reasons why he thinks No Retreat, No Surrender is the best Egyptian parody
Ahmed Abu al-Fadl
1 دقيقة قراءة
#literature
‘What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else’s home?’
An interview with American War’s Omar El Akkad
Sherif Abdel Samad
15 دقيقة قراءة
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