The end of July isn't the busiest time for the arts in Egypt, but there's enough going on to recommend three concerts and an exhibition.
A long-lost relative, a demonic inheritance and nine exotic flowers trigger a fatal and greedy drive for vengeance in a rich Cairene family.
Sara Ahmed Abdel Aziz compares the comics scene in Columbia in Egypt, and discusses why all comic-making is political.
Naira Antoun takes the occasion of the Ramadan series "Soqoot Horr" (Free Fall to reflect on the portrayal and understanding of mental health.
By sexing up a Naguib Mahfouz novel, the makers of this Ramadan's "Afrah al-Qobba" distort its evocative appeal.
Heba Afify expected that “The Caesar" would bring much-needed nuance to the representation of terrorism in Sinai.
At the court session, Ahmed Naji was surrounded by friends and acquaintances who saw him for the first time since he was…
This is a great few days for decentralized cultural production and consumption, thanks largely to two exciting events from Mahatat.
Why are so many owners of historic buildings in Egypt eager to let their buildings fall? Rowan El Shimi investigates.
Cinematology is back with its 7th episode, about one of Said Marzouk's best remembered films, My Wife and the Dog (1971).
Sometime in the mid-1960s, an Egyptian dancer made an audacious attempt to do the impossible: belly dance to Om Kalthoum's songs.
The Magical Recipe for Happiness asks its audience to stop listening to those who think they know better and to make their own recipes.
Rowan El Shimi sits down with scriptwriter Mariam Naoum to discuss her controversial Ramadan TV series.
Babylon is burning, the hanging gardens are black.
The Palestinian author abandons omnipresence to experiment with first-person narration for each of his three main protagonists.
Participants in the Culture Ministry sit-in talk discuss shifts in their allegiances since supporting the June 30 movement.
Lara El Gibaly reviews Yasmine El Rashidi's stunning debut novel, Chronicle of a Last Summer: An intimate story of the intersection of one girl's life with three decades of Egyptian…
The fake beer brought back its famous misogyny and strayed into homophobia too.
If you're in Cairo this week, there's films, a potentially good theater play, an exhibition and an open-air concert that we recommend.
This novel is a glimpse into a world where nothing is sacred, where the past is a series of events meant to set us up for a bleaker future —…
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