#music
Conversation with Farid Eslam, Maii Waleed and Zeid Hamdan: Yallah! Underground
On trying to change perceptions and create a musical archive
Tugrul Mende
8 دقيقة قراءة
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#Antiquities Ministry
Egypt cuts filming fees at archaeological sites to lure international filmmakers
In a bid to attract international film producers to Egypt, the Antiquities Ministry has significantly lowered its prices for filming licenses at archaeological and historical locations. But with censorship and…
Mai Shams El-Din
6 دقيقة قراءة
#literary gems
Literary gems: Gone are the Days of the Pearls
Pearls, psychoanalysis and pre-oil nostalgia
Ismail Fayed
8 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
5 movies a Sisi supporter recommends for his president
I was inspired by Nasser’s enthusiasm for 12 Angry Men to suggest a short list of films for President Sisi that might also change his view of political life.
Mohamed Gamal
9 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
Grand Hotel’s Mohamed Shaker Khodeir on being a young director in Egypt
The eclectic director talks to Rowan El Shimi about being an unsyndicated filmmaker, and why television is where you can afford to think big.
Rowan El Shimi
8 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Zawya is back! And more
Check out our culture tips for this week in #Egypt, alongside ongoing events including the 14th Alexandria Summer Festival.
Mada Masr
3 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Sunstroke
The legacy of Mohamed Khan started with Sunstroke.
Yasmine Zohdi
6 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
Clash: An awkward movie that suits an awkward situation
Trying to humanize the police here is like trying to humanize the earthquake or sharks in a Hollywood thriller, especially if “humanity” is reduced to the ability to show compassion…
Andeel
14 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
Aleppo’s Tragedies, from the revolution’s start to the great holocaust
Aleppo’s Tragedies: The Betrayed Revolution and the Messages of the Besieged looks at daily life over the past five years in Aleppo through witness testimonies, stories, letters and diaries. In…
Samer Mokhtar
9 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: The Seventh Sense
The comedic element here is the action, not the protagonist or the spoken jokes
Amany Ali Shawky
5 دقيقة قراءة
#Ammar Abu Bakr
Keeping the story of Hisham Rizq alive: The art and aims of Shams al-Maghib
Shams al-Maghib have created a model of working together that can endure through its flexibility, and is defined by its spread as opposed to its build.
Chitra Sangtani
11 دقيقة قراءة
#Ramadan TV
On the fly: Actor Mohamed Farag on comedy, chemistry and more
"Not even just in work, look at couples, relationships, everything — If you have no chemistry, you have no success."
Amany Ali Shawky و Maha ElNabawi
16 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
Do historians marginalize the Red Sea?
A much-needed new book challenges European maritime history scholarship
Reem Askalan
11 دقيقة قراءة
#book reviews
The power of historical fiction: Two revolutions revisited
Historical fiction, if well-researched, offers readers a more personal and multilayered approach to history, contends Sherif Abdel Samad.
Sherif Abdel Samad
10 دقيقة قراءة
#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Music! Theater! Food!
This is primarily a good week for music and theater, but there’s also a seductive food event in Cairo.
Mada Masr
4 دقيقة قراءة
#Mohamed Khan
Mohamed Khan: In your face, sadness
Andeel writes that the sadness of Egyptian reality defined the cinema of a director who indulged in the sensations of life.
Andeel
9 دقيقة قراءة
#art in public space
City Shadows and a DIY toolkit for art in abandoned spaces
Mahatat's City Shadows exhibition in Port Said was a good start to a pioneering project centered around a forthcoming DIY toolkit for artists.
Rowan El Shimi
5 دقيقة قراءة
#Ramadan TV
‘Where are those places?’ Ramadan TV beyond reality and representation
Mohamed Shawky Hassan analyzes the complexities of representation and reality in Egypt's Ramadan TV.
Mohammad Shawky Hassan
7 دقيقة قراءة
#Mohamed Khan
10 articles and a video inspired by the late Mohamed Khan
A list of pieces from our archives devoted to the work of Mohamed Khan.
Mada Masr
6 دقيقة قراءة
#film reviews
Clash: A uniquely crafted microcosm of Egypt’s sour reality
Clash is deeply moving and deeply horrific. It captures this pivotal moment in Egyptian history.
Rowan El Shimi
6 دقيقة قراءة
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