I'm squatting on the floor in the middle of Nile Sunset Annex, watching Walid ElSawi's stop-motion animation video series on a large LCD screen.
The down-tempo, moody mash-ups and densely layered material of Hello Psychaleppo are somehow equally geared toward both the dance floor and the loner in headphones. Hello Psychaleppo is the project of 25-year-old Syrian artist Samer Saem Eldahr,…
After reading “Al-Feel al-Azraq” (The Blue Elephant, 2012) by Egyptian author Ahmed Mourad last year, I was pretty shaken and snippets of the book kept resurfacing in my head for…
Any crime, regardless of how awful it is, can be digested under a certain level of pressure
Eight actors sit on chairs facing one another, four along each wall. It’s difficult to see how they will manage in such a small space. We sit watching them from…
On Haytham El Wardany's ‘Kayfa ta’ book: The tensions, social struggles and class inequalities that can be masked and hidden from sight are made evident through noises and voices that…
Sitting cross-legged on the floor, Yasmine Baramawy closes her eyes and plucks the top string of the oud. About 50 people sit facing her in a dimmed room, and she…
The show has a lot of potent baldly political content, but it manages to just about balance the edifying with the whimsical.
“I didn’t always have a passion,” said Zeinab Mobarak. “But I came to realize how vital translation is and how special dubbing is.” This perhaps controversial belief, in the importance of dubbing,…
Microphone has a deep admiration for creative people, specifically those who build their niches in hostile environments
Downtown Cairo suffered an hour-long blackout on Sunday night. But this did not prevent the Future Shorts Winter Season at Vent from being one of the most enjoyable events of the year so far.…
“Collaboration” has two uses. It can mean working with someone to produce something, or traitorous cooperation with an enemy. In Egypt, both the process and possible outcomes of collaboration have…
I have no issue with cryptic works, if there’s enough to tantalize a committed viewer, says Mia Jankowicz about Wael Shawky's Al Araba Al Madfuna.
I always knew this was my father's favorite film, but the first time I watched it alone I realized it’s the story of his life
I grew up 30 miles outside of Washington, DC. During school breaks we would often drive south to brown-watered east coast beaches like Myrtle in South Carolina. Myrtle Beach was…
Images of a yipping fox, leaping dolphins, marine turtles stippled with light, and a crocodile half-hidden in the murky waters of the Nile decorate the walls of Zamalek’s El Sawy…
Nubi is told not involve the Socialist Party in "a tale of homosexuality, homicide, drugs, politics, arms trading and terrorism"
Six graffiti artists are sitting at a café on Bostan Street in downtown Cairo just after sunset. It’s a mixed bunch, men and women ranging from 17 to 30 years…
The artist had dissected her own drawings and exploded them in a different scale and to a different medium.
In 2012, feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot stormed Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior and performed in neon masks to protest the Orthodox Church leader’s support for Vladimir Putin’s…
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