If there is one song that in years to come will immediately conjure up the heady days of June 30, 2013 and everything that has happened since, it is "Tislam…
One of the first popular films to tackle Egypt’s stark class system that still endures today
No matter how hard she tries, Monira Al Qadiri seems incapable of producing art that is conventionally tragic.
Early on January 24, 2014, a bomb exploded in front of the Cairo Security Directorate, just across the street from a neo-Mamluk building which many know as the Museum of Islamic Art.…
I remember a boat trip. Fifteen of us float up the Nile on a felucca; mostly journalists, activists and artists — even some folk formerly from Al Jazeera. The wind…
A dictionary of labels invented after January 25, 2011, compiled by Andeel.
Ali Abdel Mohsen on a howling stray dog of a sci-fi movie.
I was invited to India to cover the seventh Jaipur Literary Festival — but while there, I also looked toward the vast musical landscape in hopes of better understanding a country I know…
When 81-year-old Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen gave the keynote address at the opening of India’s seventh annual Jaipur Literary Festival, he chose a fairytale format. He said he came across the Goddess of Medium Things high…
Something about projecting the cab driver as a doorway into Egyptian society makes me uncomfortable.
A few days back, on January 25, on the way home from the office I got stuck in what felt like an eternal Sisi Day Parade. It was like something out of…
Malak Helmy’s latest body of work, The Passions of the Trash Drive: A Group Exhibition, was beautiful yet unfathomable.
Being a gay man in Egypt is already a struggle without this film and its tired old clichés, lurid misinformation, and badly played out melodrama to contend with, says Sarah…
An interview with filmmaker Ahmed Awaad, when he was the head of Egypt’s censorship board in 2014.
The memoir of Abdel Hameed Gouda al-Sahar is a rare example of an Egyptian intellectual telling of his encounters with Egyptian Jews during the country’s so-called Belle Époque era.
The filmmakers thought they were going to change the world, or at least the way people saw it
The lab almost becomes a theater company in itself, often providing opportunities for various practitioners.
It’s not easy to create a resounding identity in experimental electronic music, particularly since the genre’s producers seem constantly torn between creating and owning a certain sound, and developing new…
I can’t remember who said that a good script can make a table act well, but this movie definitely supports that theory.
“Villa 69,” which is currently playing in cinemas, incorporates a number of familiar faces from the non-mainstream Egyptian film scene. It’s the first feature film directed by Ayten Amin, who has worked…
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