#cinema
Does Yousry Nasrallah’s collaboration with Sobky take exoticism too far?
On Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces
Yasmine Zohdi
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#cinema
We Are Egyptian Armenians, and that’s all you need to know
If we judge this film as a history lesson, it is quite successful.
Lara El Gibaly
6 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
The Other Land: Channelling the state’s narrative on undocumented migration
It is not just the film’s plot that is insensitive and reductive.
Rowan El Shimi
5 دقيقة قراءة
#visual art
Whose surrealism? On When Art Becomes Liberty
There is no liberty in revolutionary art existing according to the whims of the art market and a security state.
Ismail Fayed
13 دقيقة قراءة
#design
The 2016 Dubai Design Week: High hopes for sustainable design in the region
Designers utilize old skills and local materials to make new products at Dubai Design Week.
Mai Elwakil
8 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Expired ink, ordinary people, MASS, meteors and more
The Cairo film festival continues, as does the Contemporary Image Collective’s exhibition Evasive Routes. As part of the parallel program for the CiC show, on Tuesday and Wednesday Alexandria’s Wekalet Behna…
Mada Masr
3 دقيقة قراءة
#visual culture
Modern Egypt: On objects that represent the world
The way the project displayed commodities failed to reveal new things about them or those who made them.
Mohammad Shawky Hassan
10 دقيقة قراءة
#arts space raids
Port Said’s Boulevard cultural center raided, shut down by authorities
"They fear culture," said an artist who frequents the center.
5 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
The lowdown on Cairo’s 38th film festival: More organized, decentralized and commercial
From new features to highlights of the program, here's our take on CIFF
Rowan El Shimi
5 دقيقة قراءة
#archives
Why bother archiving if we can’t change our own perceptions?
Collecting images during very severe moments of change can sometimes create a fake narrative.
Lara El Gibaly
8 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
At Titi’s Balcony: A former political prisoner reflects above Tahrir
Albert Arie gets a chance to talk about being an Egyptian activist, not just an Egyptian Jew
Rowan El Shimi
5 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
FestBeat: Watching films in turbulent times remains important
Panorama helps show why films matter in a time of crisis.
5 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Not just another film festival in Cairo
Art, Kuwaiti music, a scatological farce from 1896, a party and lots of films.
Mada Masr
4 دقيقة قراءة
#Egyptology
Sunken Cities: The lure of underwater worlds and a critique of a blockbuster exhibition
On a British Museum show and the natural movement of objects toward greater value.
Chitra Sangtani
8 دقيقة قراءة
#visual art
The permanent revolution: From Cairo to Paris with the Egyptian surrealists
Two independent exhibitions commemorate an important chapter of Egyptian Modernism.
Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani
26 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
FestBeat: Day 8 of Panorama prompts reflections
Left desolate by an ultra-violent thriller on the day Trump won, but uplifted by a Rossellini masterpiece.
6 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
Hassan Khan’s new novella: The Twelve Clues of creation?
At times it’s hard to know what’s going on in this sci-fi novella, but that’s part of the fun.
Amany Ali Shawky
5 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
Festbeat: Waiting to be wowed on day 6 of Panorama
This year Panorama's young team seem to be doing a good job with audience management.
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#cinema
FestBeat: Panorama delivers tough questions on patriarchy and togetherness on day 4
We saw two movies yesterday at Panorama. Freak Orlando, a rarely screened 1981 experimental fantasy film by German feminist filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger,…
5 دقيقة قراءة
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