#Alexandria
Zawya cinema to join permanent Alexandria art scene
Art house cinema Zawya has taken up a weekly slot at Alexandria's Cinema Amir.
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#urban planning
Creative Cities: Can downtown accommodate the many visions for its future?
Can the multiple visions for downtown Cairo coalesce to create more accessible, multifunctional public spaces without declawing the city's heart?
Lara El Gibaly
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Not just a film festival in Cairo
This is the week that the Cairo Film Festival begins, which as you can read here, is exciting and should keep you fairly busy culture-wise. But it’s important to note…
Mada Masr
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#documentary
Three takes on Um Ghayeb
Um Ghayeb is a deeply moving and engrossing portrait of Hanan, a woman from a countryside village near Assiut who is incapable of having children.
Jenifer Evans و Andeel +1
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#Adam Henein
Cairo’s 37th film festival: New management, gritty films and memorials for lost icons
A marketing campaign on CIFF’s Facebook page asks the public to post videos of themselves playing charades in support of the festival
Mada Masr
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#Adel Imam
Comedy 2000: The Principal wins
Looking back at how Egypt's current trend for young, comic cinema began.
Sherif Hassan
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#Ahmed Naji
Update: Novelist and editor accused of publishing sexual content to go to court on November 14
The case against novelist Ahmed Naji and Tarek al-Taher, editor-in-chief of Akhbar al-Adab, will go to court on November 14, Naji's lawyer confirmed to Mada Masr on Tuesday.…
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#2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Impressed by a novel about compromised idealism in Tunisia
Shukri Mabkhout’s first novel starts with a bizarre tomb scene in which the main character beats to the ground an elderly imam reading the Quran at his father’s funeral.
Sherif Abdel Samad
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Important films, fun music and tattoos
It would be great to get non-blockbuster Arab films screening in Egypt all year round, but right now we’re lucky to have a one-off free screening at Cairo’s Contemporary Image…
Mada Masr
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#art in public space
Young theater troupe Masl portray Egypt’s parking mafia in four cities
Four young men walk down the Manial Corniche in navy-blue overalls on a Monday afternoon. Young couples and middle-aged men on midday breaks sit around, while others pace up and…
Rowan El Shimi
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Culture
Egypt’s cinematic gems: The Night of Bakiza and Zaghloul’s Arrest
The Night of Bakiza and Zaghloul’s Arrest (1988) is a spin-off from a TV series broadcast a year earlier, and relies on a crazy plot and two wonderful female performances.
Hanaa Safwat
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#American University in Cairo
Downtown as laboratory: Q&A on Cairo’s Creative Cities conference
Both government and private sector plans for historical downtown Cairo came to a pause with the January 25 uprising in 2011, but four years later they're back in gear. Against this backdrop of…
Passant Rabie
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#2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Writing the Impossible in Gaza: A Suspended Life
Ismail Fayed reviews another IPAF shortlisted novel, this time Atef Abu Seif's 400-page fifth novel, Haya Mualaqa (A Suspended Life).
Ismail Fayed
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#architecture
Q&A with Cairobserver: On space and universities
Rowan El Shimi sits with Mohamed Elshahed to look back on the first five years of Cairobserver and talk universities, urbanism and funding.
Rowan El Shimi
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رأي
Andeel
Father Egyptian Atheist and the sheikhdom of atheism
«"I’m now convinced that the vast majority of Egyptian intellectuals, who have a hard-on for Western freedoms, if allowed into the West would probably be on…»
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: Get ready! There’s a lot going on
There’s a wide variety of arts events this week, and some of them are happening straight away. If you’re in Cairo, catch the remainder of Zawya’s run of Raafat al-Mihi…
Mada Masr
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#Ayman Ramadan
The knife-sharpener’s wheel: A review of Ayman Ramadan’s Mere Real Things at Townhouse West
While we may well have to adapt to the expectations of private supporters, we must decide which compromises are investments in the long game, and which are ultimately detrimental to…
Mia Jankowicz
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#Aida El Kashef
On creative ways to fund films, and women who killed their husbands
Egypt’s indie filmmakers come up with alternative methods of making, from crowdfunding to no-budget DIY
Rowan El Shimi
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رأي
Nael El Toukhy
How Hebrew teaches us something about ourselves, Part 4
«Israel vs. Israel: Judaism, Islam and Zionism "It pained him that Jews are being killed, but it doesn't pain him to kill Arabs? Arabs were created…»
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: A week for urban planning, books and a musical splash
It might be too late to join CILAS’s first FUNraising workshop, which looks brilliant but kicked off at 11am today, but you can still catch the last two days of the…
Mada Masr
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