"Every two years Sharjah becomes a center of sorts for Arab artistic production"
A look at Volume 1 of Waguih Ghali's diary ahead of the 2nd installation's release
*This title recalls and subverts the Western gaze
From being asked to not be burdensome to being told to kill our dissident self with our own hands
Why are we so not okay with the normality of our lives?
It saved a dull Ramadan TV season that was full of outdated notions from being a total wipe-out
Two events this week prompt us to look back into history, while a concert in Alexandria looks promising for classical Arabic music lovers. For Cairo-based cinema fans, Zawya is finally…
"We want to immortalize that feeling that overwhelmed us six years ago"
Encountering abominations with gaiety, interrogating the body’s openness dominance by outside forces
I have dilemmas about not losing my Arabic, not sacrificing the Arabic language at the altar of English
This week is full of music, films and the final days of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Summer Festival
These films see much-needed change as having to take place over the bodies of women
Dan Jakubowski navigates institutional ethics and painfully human art
Moataz Nasr’s safe political allegorizing disappoints in the official Egyptian Pavilion
The new film from The Blue Elephant team gets off to a great start
With two state festivals taking place, it’s going to be an exciting week in Cairo and Alexandria
Hany Khalifa's frank film broke the prudish "clean cinema" trend in 2003.
Our premature revolution was born from a sterile womb, and from that same womb Al-Bernameg was born unripe
Five of us have chosen six diverse novels that are easily available in Egypt’s bookstores.
Plenty to do in Cairo.
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