From poetry and criticism to interviews and explainers, and from Suez and translation to cinematic nudity and Ramadan TV - highlights from Mada's 2015 culture section.
Prosecution ordered the release of Merit staff member Mohamed Zein on Tuesday evening shortly after the downtown office was raided.
Downtown Cairo’s Townhouse Gallery and Rawabet Theater were shuttered Monday night following a surprise inspection by a 20-member interagency team.
An essential culture alphabet, from molokheya through Iman Mersal to comix.
33 must-hear songs from the MENA region.
The openness and flexibility of the festival is appealing, just like other spaces free from ministry influence and clear institutional visions.
How long do we coddle for? When do we decide that the audience is ready to see something a little less direct?
The two exhibitions are well worth a visit, says Nour El Safoury.
Egyptian visual artist Mohamed Abla's Caricature Museum, which houses an impressive collection of cartoons from Egyptian and regional publications dating back to 1927,…
This seminar asks whether writing and language, like authors, are subject to economic forces and transformations to their subjectivity and psychology.
Jana Elhassan's bodice-ripping Floor 99 makes Ismail Fayed wonder about the criteria by which works are selected for the IPAF shortlist.
Ahmed Shawky’s Al-Garima and Omar El Zohairy’s Zafir both struggle with a similar set of questions, though in different ways.
This week several arts events continue in Cairo, including the Cairo Video Festival (see our ongoing festival blog), an exploratory group exhibition at Townhouse, a painting and drawing show at Gypsum,…
The theater is a stressful place during rehearsals, and stress levels increase as opening night draws near.
ONE IMMATERIAL COLLECTION is a new series of annual video screening programs at Beirut Art Center (BAC). The title evokes Jalal Toufic's Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster, a…
Words become performative utterances that mold the space and, in the way they are spoken, their tone and pitch, contribute to the internal drive of Mark Lotfy’s films.
If you’re fascinated by the possibility of a critique that cares about its object, not the rampaging one so common today, you’ll find Laura U. Marks’ new book a delight.
In addition to the just-begun Cairo Video Festival (screenings on Monday and Tuesday at the Institut Francais as well as exhibitions at Medrar and the Contemporary Image Collective), the ongoing…
Religious themes lend themselves nicely to the medium, and Nork Zakarian builds on this idea of ever-present video.
The poor image maintains its vitality through mobility. Not waiting to be seen, as conventionally exhibited artworks do, but streaking past as many eyeballs as possible as it transits digital…
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