Recently, I finally got to see Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (2024), winner of the Cannes Grand Prix. I was lucky to experience it in a theater and…
A woman lies in the grass, Odalisque-like, but in a dress, shielding her eyes from the sun. A larger portrait shows a dark-haired woman in a delicately floral shirt, craquelures…
Toward the end of the interview, Samir Gharib says: I applaud you for being enthusiastic about something like this, because, girls, art is a thermometer for progress. That is, the…
While I was studying for a teach-in I co-organized for students in the US on Palestine and Israel last year, I asked my friends how I might approach it, and…
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In Scratching on Things I Could Disavow (2012) — an artwork and performance on the history of art in the Arab world — Lebanese artist Walid Raad clarifies to his…
We were invited to the premiere of 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑚3𝑑𝑎𝑛 by Nasa4nasa this summer. We have been closely following the collective’s work in the contemporary dance space, often foregrounding the body in…
At the Cairo International Film Festival, we watched Carol Mansour’s documentary, A State of Passion, which follows Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah in and out of Gaza. Mansour brings us a…
The Valley of Walls, an exhibition curated by Farida Youssef and housed in the abandoned apartment of Egypt’s late Irrigation Minister Ahmed Ali Kamal, invites viewers to join a journey…
Adania Shibli and Specters of the Disaster on Literature and the Body
Mulberry season passes in the wink of an eye (and can be said to snatch hearts) each spring
Like many of greater Cairo's residents and visitors from further away, Mada Masr decided to visit Egypt's oldest parks, the Giza Zoo and Orman botanical gardens, after news spread of…
Music is marking territory, but what sort of map is this?
The writer discusses his decision to turn down the Sawiris Cultural Award for his recent novel
"There is a moment of negativity in this movement: you think of homeland when you are not there"
An excerpt from Oxana Timofeeva’s How to love a homeland.
Orient for Film and Theatre Productions reopened the art space with a new strategy in 2021
Sometimes a story needs three acts
I took a breath, and a second, and a third, as if I were shoving away the heaviness on my heart
Cassettes decentralized state-controlled Egyptian media long before the invention of the internet
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