#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Thousands of books, dramatic choral music and more
This week, our arts recommendations can easily keep you busy.
Mada Masr
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#cinema
A music-filled Tunisian film perfectly fits this doubtful moment
Through a fictional Arabic alt-rock band, Khyam Allami has created a soundtrack that’s as nuanced, lo-fi and punk rock as the movie itself.
Laura Bird و Maha ElNabawi
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#blasphemy
Poet Fatima Naoot sentenced to 3 years in prison for contempt of religion
Poet, journalist and ex-parliamentary candidate Fatima Naoot was sentenced to three years in prison and a LE20,000 fine for contempt of religion and insulting…
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#Ahmad Abdalla
How have films that fictionalized January 25 progressed over 5 years?
Perhaps this trend reveals that what seemed to us right from the beginning as immediately cinematic – the big spectacle – is actually not what makes good cinema.
Rowan El Shimi
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#Ahmad Abdalla
3 films that anticipated the January 25 revolution
Looking back at some films that reflected the dissent that was building in the country is revealing.
Rowan El Shimi
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#Alia Mossallam
The ambivalent hybridity of pre-independence Arab societies
On wrestling ambivalently with the collaborations between Egyptian and European modernists that have shaped our contemporary realities.
Ismail Fayed
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Politics doesn’t entirely trump art
Perhaps culture isn’t uppermost in your mind at the start of this particular week.
Mada Masr
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#book reviews
The cautionary literature of Michel Houellebecq and Ezzedine Choukri Fishere
Perhaps the most shocking implication of both Houellebecq‘s and Fishere’s novels is that tyranny presupposes the culpability of the people.
Sherif Abdel Samad
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#arts space raids
Townhouse says closure is due to state admin failures, not politics
A Townhouse employee who wished to remain anonymous disagreed.
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#comedy
Stewart Lee, Stewart Lee, Stewart Lee, Stewart Lee
Andeel on England, comedy, Islamophobia and being politically correct.
Andeel
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#Ahmed Naji
An overambitious literary seminar of existential proportions
Remembering it feels like remembering a happening that took place in a moment that was uncounted and ahistorical, almost like its own treatment of the literary experiences it discussed.
Sara El Adl
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: A/V experiments, French films, Mohamed Khan and slow food
Dive right into this week's Cairo arts events with an experimental audio-visual experience tonight, or wait till tomorrow and either go to veteran filmmaker Mohamed Khan's book-signing or see a French film week…
Mada Masr
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#alternative education
Deleuze in Miami: The moving image of MASS Alexandria
After a 2-year hiatus, the contemporary arts education space MASS Alexandria is preparing to reopen. Ilka Eickhof talks to incoming director Berit Schuck.
Ilka Eickhof
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#1967
As it was seen: Looking back at filmic representations of 1967
Never answered, the questions raised by these three post-defeat films came up again urgently in January 2011.
Ismail Fayed
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Lots of chances to learn in Cairo this week
Watch a long-awaited film, or learn about publishing and translation, the local art economy or classical Arabic heritage.
Mada Masr
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#cinema
Out on the Street: Playing the ‘good guys’
Out on the Street manages to dodge the terrible fate of poor political art that compensates for its lack of anything exciting with a righteous self-image.
Jenifer Evans و Andeel
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#History
A reading into the history of Egyptian Jews: Grand narratives and fragile identities
Reading Egyptian Jewish testimonies becomes an attempt to see new horizons for envisioning the future of this heritage and history.
Ismail Fayed
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#cinema
Out of the Ordinary: Daoud Abdel Sayed goes digital
The fear underlying the film’s exploration of mind-reading powers is that of losing the body as a unit with a private inside beyond the reach of others.
Nour El Safoury
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: An acclaimed screenwriter, cover bands, good films in Cairo
Cairenes can ease into a new year of culture slowly but surely with these three solid recommendations. Also, be sure to check out Tripod, an online magazine publishing independent film criticism…
Mada Masr
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#2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
The Italian: Some insights, but homophobia and misogyny galore
When it is not maligning women and LGBT characters, The Italian is insightful on the contemporary history of Tunisia and the inner workings of its post-independent state.
Ismail Fayed
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