«I’ve never met filmmaker Mohamed Diab and I’ve not watched his new film Ishtibak (Clash, 2016), but I’ve read about it like everyone else. And I did see…»
Khan is a master of character-driven stories.
The East Cairo Prosecution renewed the detention of four members of the online satirical troupe Atfal al-Shawarea (Street Children) for another 15…
As soon as we give in to the idea that we are nothing but private citizens we’ve given up 99 percent of the battle.
Palestine is very present in Egypt’s cultural events this week.
To me, this is where solidarity can begin: by knowing, by seeing. Carefully, of course.
On May 14, in a cabin called Babel at Turin Book Fair’s Pavilion 3, Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif and Iraqi novelist Sinan Antoun read excerpts of Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry, including…
Having grown up in Shubra myself, I was immediately sucked into Naim Sabry’s novel and finished its 233 pages in a few days.
Andeel on the regular collaborative night between Eish & Malh and Cimatheque.
Chronic: On Psychological Exhaustion as a Public State, which shows at the Contemporary Image Collective until June 4, tackles a difficult question: How do you organize an exhibition in a…
It started on the internet but may end in the street, which the regime thinks it can totally control — just like it thinks Atfal al-Shawarea threatens its existence.
Tarek Ghanem on why Yasser Abdel Latif's short stories are so readable, plus a new translation of one by Karim El-Sahafi.
On boundary-breaking director Hussein Kamal and his experimentation in the spirit of French New Wave cinema.
"Every grain of sand that enters a writer's life potentially becomes part of their writing, and this is a hell of a lot more than a grain of sand.”
Following the arrest of their youngest member, Ezz Eddin Khaled, all five other members of the online satirical troupe Atfal al-Shawarea (Street…
Beyond its initial surface appeal, this book demonstrates CT imaging and mummy research are vital in addressing unresolved historical problems.
Art student and actor Ezz Eddin Khaled, a member of the Atfal al-Shawarea troupe, was arrested from his house in the early…
Beyond Egypt, there's a series of readings in solidarity with imprisoned writer and journalist Ahmed Naji on May 12.
For Ashraf Fayadh, a Palestinian poet sentenced in Saudi Arabia.
Thanks to a French sultan, an Albanian soldier and two Egyptian Azharites.
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