This album is so mediocre, it reminds me of one of the top five mediocre moments in my life. In my first year in college, I was confused by everything. It…
I remember this super-blond woman appearing on television in 1987, and making me want to break the screen to pull her from inside and take her with me. Sabah alone…
Ahmad Abdalla with a plea for festival judges to give up idealization and engage with the real-life debates beyond the parameters of their screens.
Arguably the first film in Egyptian cinema to push for a socialist solution to Egypt’s eternal problems
In Beirut’s villa, you stand in front of a maquette. It’s about shoulder level and doesn't appear to be well-made, but like a puzzle assembled over time. White cardboard buildings…
Redefining "authentic music" as serious music capable of introducing a new sound expands the scope of our listening experience, says Rami Abadir.
One talk with filmmaker and critic Tarek El Sharkawy, and one with with Swiss artist/curator Andrea Thal.
A fast-paced feminist tragedy conjured from a small article in a newspaper’s crime section
I entered her simple head-of-department room accompanied by my colleague Hany Helmy, who had been her PhD student for some time. He was introducing me to the famous Radwa Ashour…
Close to Tahrir Square, at Takayeeba café, an independent artist friend of mine and a theater director were sitting around a small tin table that barely had room for the…
At the 6th Cairo Video Festival, an astonishing total of 200 videos were on view over 12 days.
This film is proof that you can do all the wrong things there are to do as a filmmaker and get away with it, as long as you've got a…
In mid-November, Nile Sunset Annex founders Taha Belal and Jenifer Evans (who is also Mada’s culture editor) went to look at three exhibitions in Cairo. The first were large state-affiliated group shows: Al-Ahram’s first annual “Visual…
A Cairo court ruled on Tuesday against the Cabinet’s decision to ban the film Halawet Rouh (Rouh’s beauty) from cinemas, overturning a previous…
Taher Chikhaoui suggests that a new reality is creating a shift in cinematic language that leaves more space for interpretation.
Lucy is a cosmopolitan lad with a foreign accent and a masters in modern dance in this brilliantly cast romcom
As you repose on the wooden chairs in downtown Cairo’s Townhouse Rawabet theater, the rubble of the city fazes out and you prepare to enter another zone. It's dark — only…
The Last Supper hits home with its shrewd and darkly comedic take on all that is wrong with Egyptian society today.
The scarcity of talented writers and the small size of the industry sometimes gives people a bigger status than they deserve, don’t you agree?
MF Kalfat on Nadine Labaki's 2011 film Where Do We Go Now?
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