Short-lived artist-run spaces, imaginary schools, newspapers set up by groups of journalists, rooftop supper clubs and online metal concerts — DIY initiatives seem to be all the rage in Cairo…
November is an exciting month for Cairene cinephiles. Two highly anticipated festivals have movie watchers on the edge of their seats, and there’s a couple of good films playing in…
It feels we're being told a lie, half the truth or the whole truth but out of context in this sad, complex political mystery
Mohamed Salah Ramadan is an young Egyptian man working in a foreign bank in Cairo. Until very recently, he was a deep lover and strong defender of Mohamed Mounir’s music.…
It was 2007 or 2008 and I was working at Al-Dostour newspaper. The gang of other young cartoonists and I were proud to be publishing in such a well-received important oppositional…
A kitsch masterpiece of an overlooked moment in Egyptian music history: Arabic glam-rock
On Wednesday, October 30, composer and oud performer Issa Murad brought his young group Joussour to Cairo for a challenging performance at the Opera House. Joussour was born at the…
Soneiaa fi Masr (Made in Egypt, 2014) is a New Century production that launched in cinemas in August during Eid. It’s hard to tell if it's a kids’ movie that can also appeal to…
London — The setting of the hosting environment, Frieze London, is relatively easy to annotate. As in all fairs, it shows a portion of the cogs of a market, historically…
When Nehad Selaiha attends a play, it’s quite the event for an entire cast and crew. She arrives on time, sits in the first row and quietly leaves right after…
Despite metal's sinister reputation in Egypt, and the proliferation of more widely accepted music genres, local metalheads are still finding ways to persevere.
«First, give birth to a human being. Second, attempt to raise him or her. That's all you really have to do in order to have created…»
A dense colorful collage points out overlooked similarities between past and present.
«I’d like to make a few notes on belly-dance beyond the moral debate around justifying it as a non-sexual act or glorifying it as a true…»
Otared, a novel by Mohamed Rabie, is about to be published in Arabic by Al Tanweer. This is an English version of the excerpt, translated by Robin Moger.
Next to Here is emblematic of the relationship foreign cultural institutions have with contemporary art spaces and organizations in Egypt and the art scene in general.
Mohamed Khan has a long history of making women the gauge of society in his films, says Adam Youssef.
Ali El-Saudi, a young Egyptian man living in Dubai, works as a lawyer in a multinational company. Until very recently he was a big fan of Amr Diab's music, but he’s not…
Ten years after its foundation, Al Mawred Al Thaqafy culture resource has been celebrating its anniversary with a program of events between Cairo, Alexandria and Beirut under the title “Bidoun…
An accidental sex change drives the action in of the most progressive and controversial comedies of the 1950s
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