Four months after an extravagant announcement, the government's plans to establish a new Egyptian capital city seem to be caught somewhere between controversy and awkward silence. The influx of conflicting…
The Mada culture desk was starkly divided as to which events to attend this week. The engine of the cultural scene is returning to full velocity, but it’s still summer…
Video killed the radio star, but YouTube killed the music video channel, and thousands of video clips now mournfully play unwatched as mere background noise in our living rooms. But…
After an extended holiday period, people are back to work — and it shows in the cultural happenings in Cairo and Alexandria this week. Normally, the season doesn’t really get…
This year I asked myself, do these films have much to offer besides their political message?
Arab Spring, Arab Sink. (1) My friend called me from Sanaa, from Gaza, from Sinai, from Homs.She said: the streets are full of our blood. We don’t have water and we…
The author steadfastly watched a multitude of television series this Ramadan, so that she could share with you here the wisdom she gleaned.
Ramadan is now officially over, and the Eid weekend is ushering in intensifying midsummer heat and urgent desires for vacation. The first day after the holy month was marked by long…
As Ramadan draws to a close, viewers are still hotly debating several successful serials that premiered this summer, like "Taht al-Saytara" (Under Control) and “Haret el-Yahood" (The Jewish Alley). But that popularity…
Walking around the Heliopolis district of Dhaher at dawn, I enter a small maze of paths, all nine of which lead to the heart of Dhaher: Sakakini Square (the focal…
Ahmed Sabry paints landscape murals in the apartments of Cairo’s newly constructed upscale neighborhood, the Fifth Settlement, for money. He describes these paintings as similar to the ones people often…
Hany Khalifa, the director of the commercially and critically acclaimed film Sahar al-Layaly (Sleepless Nights, 2003), is returning to cinemas after a 12-year…
Cairo’s cultural life is a bit slow this week, as the capital’s denizens are preoccupied with the tenuous state of security and contemplating a beach get-away for next week’s Eid…
Omar Sharif, an icon of Egyptian cinema, Oscar nominee for his role in Lawrence of Arabia and Golden Globe winner for Dr.…
The prolific Egyptian actor and producer Samy El-Adl, 69, died in the early hours of Friday morning in Cairo due to complications with a…
#WAYDO marks an interesting moment of collaboration between two types of institution and it stages a little party of works that otherwise wouldn’t necessarily meet.
Ismail Fayed is reading and reviewing the six novels shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The exercise gets off to a rocky start with Moroccan writer Ahmed…
It’s a thunderous evening in East Berlin. A dented, chipped metal door is propped open, inviting passersby inside for dry refuge. Taped on the weathered door is a cardboard sign…
It might be the middle of Ramadan, but there are plenty of cultural events to catch in Cairo this week, from a lovely humanitarian iftar dinner, to musical and literary…
Mada Masr engages in a new partnership with Magicrowd, as part of its ongoing interest in connecting with you in meaningful ways. In this first round of our collaboration, “a Year…
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