Tucked behind a coffeehouse in a bustling paper market in downtown Alexandria is Wekalet Behna. It’s an unlikely location for what was once one of the region’s most important film distribution companies. Reopened for two months now, the 12-room apartment hosts a filmmaking unit, cinema archive,…
A Deep Sleep details a strange epidemic of impotency among the men of Cairo and Giza.
Laura Gribbon on downtown Cairo's new alternative cinema.
Come and hear the story of the yellow mountain full of ice, beckons the Wonder Box. Rolled from the back of a pickup truck onto Cairo’s streets and assembled and…
A girl wakes up one day to find herself 15 years older, living with her sister's husband
Exploring the murky world of Egypt's propagandist pop music.
A look at satellite images of Giza’s Al-Lisht and Al-Hibeh sites from 2010 to the present is shocking, to say the least. In three years, illegal excavators have created a…
Choukri Fishere may simply be, like the protagonist of Bab al-Khoroug, a typical Egyptian citizen who wants stability, hates the Brotherhood and thinks leftists are too idealistic to succeed.
I have written “Out of Egypt” as a mark of the end of my many years in Egypt, teaching at the American University in Cairo. It is a kind of…
I pull up to Bongoz studio in the leafy Cairo suburb of Maadi one evening to meet Arabic reggae-infused rock band Sharmoofers. Two of them, 25-year-old Moe al-Arkan and 32-year-old Ezz…
Despite its confused feminist message, this movie does tackle class reconciliation, birth control and internal migration
Tashkent 1958. I try and imagine it for a moment. The first conference of the Afro-Asian Writers is in session.
Maha Maamoun's show at Gypsum Gallery had much to do with the city of Cairo, with nature and poetry, with the overlooked and the overheard.
“We are all corrupt, no exceptions, even with helpless silence, we are corrupt.”
Street harassment is not a theme but should be taken on as a structural condition, as unavoidable to reality and consciousness as street paving or rotund aunts shoving past you…
April was a busy month for art aficionados in Cairo. Several exhibitions, performances and talks opened across the city. Many venues also hosted the third edition of the Downtown Contemporary…
Your dance movements are your only means of expression between a folkloric past and funky, fidgety future.
The pilot phase of the March Project proved to be an exciting addition to the Sharjah Art Foundation’s programs.
As with other realms of expression, the story of sound in Egypt is also one of dispute over who controls the record and its means of dissemination.
In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Malik Bendjelloul asked where Sixto Rodriguez was. Wim Wender’s “Buena Vista Social…
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