#1952
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Somersaults
I only heard of this movie recently, maybe for one of the following seven reasons.
Andeel
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#Egypt-Palestine relations
Yemeni Oscar nominee banned from entering Palestine for literature festival
Israeli border staff barred filmmaker Sara Ishaq from entering Palestine to participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature on Friday at the…
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Yasmin El-Rifae
PalFest on the road
«I am writing this in the car on the way from the northern, Israeli-controlled city of Haifa to the West Bank city of Ramallah.»
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#culture tips
Tips from the culture desk: May 23-30 in Cairo
It's another busy month for Cairo's culture scene. Here are three potentially exciting events happening this week, as recommended by Mada's culture desk. Ahmed Saleh and Abdullah Miniawy at CJC We haven't…
Mada Masr
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#archives
Empty archives: What do we do with what we do not know
In the era of hypervisibility the invisible is acquiring a new relevance in the dynamics of power that regulate the global knowledge economy.
Laura Cugusi
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#Mada Mix
Mada Mix: 5 progressive oud players working now
Brief blurb and video on five progressive oud players you should listen to if you also worry about the future of what might be the most important instrument in Arab…
Maha ElNabawi
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#art in public space
Egypt’s arts revolution thrives at Minya’s Megraya
The lights come back on after an engrossing two-hour journey with Das Experiment (The Experiment), a German fiction film from 2001 inspired by the 1971 Stanford prison experiment recreating the psychological…
Rowan El Shimi
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#Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian temple discovered near Aswan
The foundations and remains of an ancient Egyptian temple estimated to date back over 3,300 years have been unearthed at a site…
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#Ahmed Badry
Ahmed Badry: Meticulously structured chaos
Shehab Awad explores the studio of artist Ahmed Badry.
Shehab Awad
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#Culture Ministry
The Egyptian pavilion in 2015: What happens in Venice doesn’t always stay in Venice
Unless muddy politics take a backseat to getting quality work produced and shown, the Egyptian pavilion can hardly justify the legitimacy it claims by way of its prominent location in…
Alexandra Stock
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#agriculture
The dimly lit marvels of Cairo’s Agricultural Museum
Initially meant to record natural history from the pharaohs to modern times, the museum has become a favorite of sorts among people with a taste for the quirky sides of…
Sara-Duana Meyer
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#Adam Henein
The bourgeoisie, real estate & nation-building, or how the Egyptian & Middle Eastern art markets operate, part 2
State financial policies continued to liberalize in the 1990s so as to integrate Egypt into the new world market, and Egypt signed multiple partnership agreements with the EU.
Ahmed Naji
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#Ahmed Naji
The bourgeoisie, real estate & nation-building, or how the Egyptian & Middle Eastern art markets operate, part 1
In 1989, Egyptian billionaire businessman Nassef Sawiris walked in to a trade fair at the Marriott Hotel in Cairo. Various luxury goods were exhibited alongside high-end furniture and expensive antiques.
Ahmed Naji
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#cinema
On the centenary of Salah Abu Seif’s birth
A medium shot frames the tightly-clad rear of a woman stepping out of her luxurious car with a poodle. A man, mesmerized, follows her into an elevator and ends up…
Amany Ali Shawky
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#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: A Paper Hero
A surreal and thrilling cult movie about a missing screenplay
Amany Ali Shawky
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Culture
Bolt: Daring to uncover the male psyche
“It's a man's world,” James Brown sang in 1966. And it still is. Perhaps especially here in Egypt. Even though for many families women are the main breadwinners, it’s mostly…
Rowan El Shimi
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#comedy
Another take on 1980 and Up: A play in a can
In my opinion, it is almost insulting to abuse the hopes, disappointments, successes and failures of a generation throughout the past four years.
Amany Ali Shawky
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#experimental film
16 Cairo film screenings you shouldn’t miss this month
Two exciting film events are happening this May in Cairo. Unfortunately, they overlap by three days, so this article contains some events happening at the same time. It’s not my…
Ahmed Refaat
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#dance
Ezzat Ezzat Studio: The architecture of dance
"My whole life, personality, approach changed because of dance, and this is my main motivation for anything we’re doing here."
Rowan El Shimi
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#Al Mawred Al Thaqafy
Genaina Theater returns, operating as private company
Genaina is now registered under a private, for-profit company carrying the same name.
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