Back for its second edition, the India by the Nile festival started its month-long series of film screenings, workshops, concerts, exhibitions, talks and culinary events on April 1. Its intention…
Islam Chipsy is the star. If you’ve ever seen him in action, it’s not hard to understand why.
When Gypsum Gallery was still in the planning stages last year, director Aleya Hamza was introduced to Beirut-based artist Tamara al-Samerai by Alexandrian artist Mahmoud Khaled. After an initial meeting at ArtDubai, they continued their…
I remember hearing that Hassan Khan doesn’t show in Egypt because the works are not shown properly, or there’s no capacity to show them.
Ahmed Ghoneimy's The Cave keeps viewers hooked even when they can foresee that tensions among the characters are about to culminate, writes Mai Elwakil.
For two unusual afternoons last week, downtown Cairo dwellers were surprised by a series of street performances, part of the much-anticipated third edition of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF),…
“Sobhy Guirguis: The Self and the Other,” a selling exhibition at ArtTalks on view from February 4 to 25, marked the first anniversary of the artist’s death at the age of 84. The…
Supporting local creative production and public access to the arts is a difficult task, Culture Minister Saber Arab admitted at a press conference Monday. Two major challenges the ministry currently…
The bilingual publication released last month to accompany the 2012 PhotoCairo5 exhibition continues the exhibition’s quest to shift the debate away from both whether it can be “too soon” to…
A friend once told me that laughter is a very basic expression of understanding. This makes sense to me. With my poor Arabic, I often laugh after understanding the literal…
The law is everywhere in this movie, being broken.
This book, written in Arabic and published by Sharqiyat in 2013, is a quirky record of life in downtown Cairo.
“We have four social segments in Egypt: the poorer than poor, the poor, the middle class and the upper class,” says Ortega from the back of a car in Cairo.…
“La Moakhza” (Excuse My French) is about a Christian boy from a wealthy family who has to switch his private school for a standard state one after his father suddenly dies. He’s…
A little girl in Egypt dreams of being a beautiful Disney princess. In a sense, she’s encouraged. Her bedroom walls are populated with such characters, and her parents leave her…
It’s a rainy afternoon in Cairo. Mud is everywhere and the sky is grey. Sad figures stand about attempting to cross flooded streets, getting splashed by passing cars. The city…
Mohamed Khan's Factory Girl deals with the brutal class system. But his first post-revolutionary movie also asks questions about Egypt’s post-revolutionary reality, partly through the role that he and Wessam…
The opening scene is a brilliant exploitation of religious tradition for the sake of masturbation
The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) will make a strong comeback in November, promised its board of directors in a press conference last Saturday.…
Sinan Antoon thinks of literary texts as wearing black, waiting for a translator to liberate them into the afterlife.
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