Mecca Journeys captures the the marked dichotomies of Mecca’s recent explosive growth
Hessen Hossam reflects on Henry Barakat’s The Night They Arrested Fatima, 1984
A conversation with Ala Younis
Mahmoud Khaled’s A New Commission for an Old State
An Art Dubai exhibition shows how modernism manifested in the Arab world
Fatma Amer reviews Ahmed Fawzi Saleh's Poisonous Roses
Mariam Mekiwi’s new film hinges on a sci-fi genre and makes us bounce between its own world and ours
How 4 artists made sense, in music, out of some words Mada sent them
From Berlin, Jasmina Metwaly’s “We Are Not Worried in the Least”
Sherif Abdel Samad looks at Márquez's journalistic works and their influence on his fiction
Peter Holslin speaks to 47Soul about how politics of movement play into the band's new album
But what if describing a taxidermied bird’s flight as mere fiction ends the story too soon?
"Friends are new fathers, fathers are old friends."
On revolution, non-production and subversive documentation
Part book lovers' haven, part arts festival, we explore the 49th Cairo International Book Fair
Mada Masr reviews several of the films screened at the Zawya Short Film Festival
This is the last episode in the first season of Andeel's show Big Brother
Zawya proceeds with screening Doueiri's The Insult (2017), despite BDS backlash
Zobaida is a triumph of rebellious theater that rebels against traditional methods of production
A book excerpt by artist and musician Çevdet Erek from the latest release in the Kayfa ta series
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