#Amr Waked
Four takes on Ibrahim El Batout’s Al-Ott
The first 20 minutes were pretty strong.
Jenifer Evans و Amany Ali Shawky +2
7 دقيقة قراءة
تصنيف
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#Bibliotheca Alexandrina
To be or not to be: A night of mobile ringtones
“Please turn off your mobile phones and do not take photos,” they sang, and the three hour play began.
Rowan El Shimi
3 دقيقة قراءة
#poems
Poem: After Aleppo
To the families and lovers at the bottom of the sea, fleeing the Syrian war trying to reach Europe. After Aleppo I learned to read early. But the truth is,…
Jehan Bseiso
1 دقيقة قراءة
#Amir Ramses
Four much anticipated Arabic films hit cinemas
This mid-year school holiday brings four highly anticipated Arabic films, which premiered in film festivals to Egyptian commercial cinemas, starting Wednesday. For…
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#cinema
Cairo Drive: A film about more than just traffic
“I would like to make room for ambulances to pass, but where do I go?”
Rowan El Shimi
6 دقيقة قراءة
#Culture Ministry
Actor Youssef Ismail to direct newly opened National Theater
The newly re-opened state-run Egyptian National Theater has appointed actor Youssef Ismail as its director. The National Theater, which has been closed…
2 دقيقة قراءة
رأي
Khaled Fahmy
5 reasons to object to the banning of Exodus
«Two weeks ago I went to watch Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings here in New York after reading several reviews that were mostly negative, and, of…»
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#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Shams al-Zanati
A strong and catchy name for a strong and catchy character. A wonderful tribute to Kurosawa
Hessen Hossam
7 دقيقة قراءة
#Ahmad Abdalla
Ahmad Abdalla’s Decor, and the personal vs. the common
Decor is Ahmad Abdalla’s fourth feature. It’s a black-and-white movie about Maha (Horeya Farghaly) and Sherif (Khaled Abol Naga), two set designers working on a “commercial” film by an “independent”…
Andeel و Ahmed Refaat
15 دقيقة قراءة
#Ancient Egypt
Archeologists unearth tomb of ancient queen, Osiris funeral complex
Two major archeological discoveries were announced on Sunday: the unearthing of a tomb belonging to a previously unidentified Ancient Egyptian queen, and…
3 دقيقة قراءة
#Basim Magdy
Obsession with time: Basim Magdy’s show at Gypsum
In Measuring the Last Breaths of Time on a Fading Scale, Basim Magdy seems fascinated by tracing the effects of time's passage on our visual memories as well as the…
Ismail Fayed
5 دقيقة قراءة
#2014 year enders
A brighter-than-expected alphabet of culture for 2014
Not as depressing as the year at large.
Mada Masr
6 دقيقة قراءة
#2014 year enders
A year in culture writing
Mada’s culture section found its feet in 2014, developing into a more daring, experimental platform for new forms of arts writing, while also wading into difficult debates and exploring a…
Mada Masr
8 دقيقة قراءة
#Adham Hafez
Clapping along with everyone else: A short play about a dance meeting
We are offered plenty of themes to choose from. But there’s one particularly disputed premise: What does it mean to be an independent artist?
Lara El Gibaly
12 دقيقة قراءة
#conversations about the arts
The Youth Salon: Bold, ambitious, too big
The yearly Youth Salon, showing in and around the Palace of Arts in Cairo's Opera House complex, opened in November and runs until December 30. Here artists Sama Waly, Taha Belal and Jenifer Evans talk about…
Jenifer Evans و Sama Waly +1
17 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Land of Fear
A philosophical storyline about human existence packaged as an epic crime flick full of suspense.
Amany Ali Shawky
5 دقيقة قراءة
#Alaa Fifty
Salute the Parrot: Fantasy of the real
"I feel that the musicians and audience are light years ahead of the institutions." Kinda Hassan talks to Maurice Louca and Maha Maamoun.
Kinda Hassan
16 دقيقة قراءة
#censorship board
Censorship board bans movie about Moses
The censorship committee banned the movie “Exodus: Gods and Kings” from screening in Egyptian cinemas, due to historical inaccuracies and its personification of the prophet…
2 دقيقة قراءة
#exhibition reviews
Third Eye offers insights into young artists’ use of images
Third Eye is welcome in the context of increasing polarization between an atrophying state-controlled scene and an isolated contemporary arts scene that finds its support elsewhere
Ismail Fayed
6 دقيقة قراءة
#American University in Cairo
Very real imagined spaces of Rana ElNemr
Rana ElNemr is known for her photographs of abnormalities of urban Egypt, detached from their surrounding context. Beautiful, they invite us to investigate nameless, dissected environments, often devoid of human…
Jenifer Evans و Sama Waly
7 دقيقة قراءة
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