Four hundred copies of Walls of Freedom are still being held by the customs authority more than two months after their confiscation,…
This absurdist comedy package about a plane crash is full of revolutionary sentiment
I was surprised by the long and heated applause at jokes making fun of the army and the political situation in this piece of theater that has, like all of…
This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of the big-budget, well-publicized contemporary arts festival.
At various points in this film about actors, the actors look as though they’re trying not to laugh
“Well, they have to wear the tarboosh. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, they would look just like us.”
I was born in Egypt, raised in Egypt, went to a school that mixed both English and Arabic, and I consider English my first language in writing.
The most pressing problem the region’s filmmakers face today is arguably the absence of good distribution strategies.
ArtsMart was founded as a website selling Egyptian artworks in late 2012. Now it’s also a massive industrial exhibition space with poured concrete floors that has hosted art shows since…
Many Egyptian filmmakers end up choosing to make films in secret, far from the eyes of the state, except when it’s absolutely necessary to shoot in state-controlled locations, says filmmaker…
Actor Adel Imam, a rare artistic phenomenon in the Arab world since the mid-1970s, built his stardom through many films that have become Egyptian cinema classics. It’s not common knowledge…
Quiet, largely static images from everyday life are paired with audio clips from Egyptian news, prime-time political talk shows and films.
Starting April 22, Salma El Tarzi's music documentary Underground/On the Surface will be screened commercially in Egyptian cinemas for one week. The film…
Zeinab Khalifa has been making jewelry for 28 years, and come to learn a lot about the declining craft. She’s even been making plans for its revival.
The building, in Cairo’s central Attaba district, was nationalized in 1961 but retains its original architecture, from its three-story-high central atrium to its glass chandeliers.
Australia has returned 17 stolen artefacts to the Egyptian government. Egypt’s ambassador to Australia reportedly held a reception at the embassy's headquarters…
The show is not just a reenactment of the Iliad story, but also an ode to the act of telling, to stories and to time.
Women in Cairo have most likely been empowered so many times by the “western” gaze that they are no longer offended by the moral authority intrinsic to the approach
The librarian brings your “book,” which is actually a person, asks you to take care of them and says you only have 20 minutes.
A film about class hierarchy, women’s labor and a corrupt patriarchal system that ultimately doesn’t benefit anyone
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