While listening, I can’t shake the feeling that I’m standing on the edges, fingers splayed on the glass, watching something emotional take place. And while my presence isn’t particularly unwelcome,…
It wouldn’t be easy to definitively categorize Tawfiq Saleh as a Marxist filmmaker, but his works are examples of a conscious art.
Ismail Fayed is left wondering if the regime is asserting the presence of the military even through niche practices such as scenography.
When a few fateful retweets put me into contact with Egyptian-American poet and “seeker” Yahia Labadidi, I didn’t expect to come across an author whose work sounds such depth. A…
This overlooked masterpiece, once banned, ends with a hysterical call for continued resistance
Who holds alternative cultural institutions accountable for their choices, expenditures or agendas?
After reading Rami Abadir’s “The contradictions of independent music,” I wanted to offer two alternative ideas. The first concerns the confusion between independent and alternative music. While Abadir writes that…
There is one exhibit in London which gives me near-religious feelings. In the Museum of London, a display shows large photos of suffragettes in the process of being arrested, and…
MF Kalfat takes an in-depth, critical look at Ahmad Abdallah's film Microphone and its treatment of Egyptian music.
Tackling the idea that a man's value is his capacity for vengeance, and a woman’s chastity is more important than her life
Soon after the Permanent Bureau of the Afro-Asian Writers Association in Cairo folded, a poet from Pakistan by the name of Faiz Ahmed Faiz arrived in Beirut to take over…
In a seminar on the "Arab Spring" at the University of Michigan, I assumed that the young white woman sitting next to me was a student of Middle Eastern studies.
On the surface, Bashir al-Deek's Halaa Housh is just another slapstick comedy, writes Hanaa Safwat.
There are very few times in life when it is appropriate to lay down in the middle of a room while listening to throbbing electronic music. More often than not,…
Poverty, sexual needs and corruption in all areas of life permeate the show, and are frankly and openly depicted through brilliant acting.
I became curious about Udi Aloni’s feature film Forgiveness (2006) after I read his article for Mondoweiss criticizing the Israeli left’s ideological failure and ultimate position of “territorial compromise,” namely…
The first time Ahmed thinks of his marriage is when he comes home to find his wife has turned into a man
Here and Elsewhere was an exhibition of artists from the Arab world at New York City’s New Museum. Jenifer Evans and Ismail Fayed sat down to discuss it.
Ganzeer’s metaphor imagines the world as a spectacle, something that you can choose either to gaze at or participate in.
In the era in which the enemy has become the friend, Cairo is the oppressor. But who is the oppressed?
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