As the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival enters its final week, there’s still time to catch some of their events around Cairo, but the stars on the block are Zawya and…
A novel that enmeshes the struggle of ambitious young women with the national independence struggle
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Slowly realizing the circle of courage to create and consume art is wide enough for everyone
Arts recommendations for Cairo and Alexandria this week
The Piper is fundamentally the extended staging of the death of the poet — or indeed of poetry itself
Talking about undermining the documentary, intuition, maps, clichés and curiosity.
Flowers, films, music and what we're excited about from D-CAF's program
Thinking about nation, family, Hosni Mubarak, obedience and rewriting the past
Zooming in on three real, crude, honest and relatable accounts of mother-daughter relationships
This week sees two film weeks at Cairo’s French Institute and Zawya, alongside an array of high-quality film programming by the latter (around the city) and Cimatheque (in downtown). And…
Saadawi is often thought of as a pioneering feminist and a mediocre novelist
An architect, a historian and a storyteller walk into a shrine…
Mada Masr's arts recommendations for the week
CIWFF founder Amal Ramsis on the festival’s history and plans
Love in the time of the 1980s
On Experimental Summer and One Plus One makes a Pharaoh's Chocolate Cake
What happens when a place's locality is taken for granted as detached from external relations?
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The performing arts couple talk family, career choices, social theater and hope
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