On Friday, Zawya's second night of “Shorts Revisited” was at full capacity. A crowd waited eagerly at the cinema's entrance. But this crowd was full of faces new to the…
A gasping young man forces open the gate of a small walled village in remote Upper Egypt
The first Cairo Literature Festival began with a summoning to old Cairo on February 14. The name Orhan Pamuk was being murmured all over Beit al-Suhaymi.
Shalabi, 50, generally seems to be a bit of a musical pioneer.
The seminal 1970s Kuwaiti comedy show Darb al-Zalaq (The Slippery Path) tells the story of Hussain, a janitor who comes into wealth after the government buys his house during the…
On the multifaceted complexity with which Egyptian cinema has portrayed the capricious drug-dealer character.
On Wednesday, privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the customs authority in Alexandria had seized 400 copies of a book documenting…
When Stara was set to launch at Emad Eddin Street’s Naguib al-Rihany Theater, it caught newspaper headlines and excited many who follow Egypt’s “alternative” art scene. With so few spaces…
On the 10th birthday of the exhibition space, library, photography school and photographic facility, Jenifer Evans sat down with CIC’s new artistic director.
Antique dealers, second-hand markets, auction showrooms, music lovers, music historians, amateurs and the rich are cornerstones of the wondrous world of vintage vinyl records. The rich history of oriental music…
In this adaptation of a novel by laziness laureate Albert Cossery, fear of the atomic bomb is a nihilistic joke
A weekend where the capital turns red, helium balloons fly and teenage girls walk around with giant-sized teddy bears, Valentine's Day in Cairo can…
Back to the Origins is the third in a series of exhibitions, Futuropolis, curated by Paul Geday at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center in downtown Cairo. It features the work…
With nine shows for its first year, Gypsum Gallery is proving itself to be a different and perhaps alternative model to art production and dissemination in Egypt. Although not the…
Censorship authority head Abdel Satar Fathi denied Tuesday that a decision had been made to stop deleting scenes from films as of…
The Egyptian documentary Amal (Hope) by Mohamed Siam won the Robert Bosch Stiftung Best Documentary award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, aka the Berlinale, on Sunday. The…
On Friday a song was briefly released on YouTube by Egyptian musician Ramy Essam. The song, Ashan Takhdoh (So You Can Take It), is directed by successful artist Ganzeer. An angry,…
An intensely weird film about foreign-influenced feudalism versus socialism
Part 1 of this interview, on Naguib Mahfouz's Midaq Alley and translation, is here. On becoming an Arabist HG: You started asking about Arabic novels after graduation. Weren’t you exposed to any contemporary…
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