«I thought it appropriate to start this article with an excerpt from a poem by the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The title of the poem (left) is…»
Folk, anti-folk, pop, anti-pop, avant-pop, electronica, noise? It’s hard to decide exactly which cookie-cut little genre singer/songwriter Aya Metwalli might fit into. Having begun singing publicly and releasing songs digitally…
Bahari broaches the fact that art about poverty, or even just art-making in general, is often exploitative
Doa Aly talks to Ania Szremski about Desire, Deceit, and Difficult Deliveries
An alphabet of important cultural events from 2013.
Through its impact on the space itself, Abu Hamdan's work transcended both the nostalgia around cassette tapes and the fetishization of Cairo's noisiness.
I’m sitting at a friend’s apartment in Brooklyn, New York, watching the snow fall outside the window while thinking of transience. My friend and I are both preparing to depart,…
This seemingly allegorical story of thugs and love in a small, isolated community is an understated masterpiece
The organizing committee of the 24th Youth Salon has picked “Crossing into the future” as the theme for this year’s edition. The annual state-sponsored competition, meant to promote emerging local…
“Blink, the moment of unequivocal, uncertain, unspecified and unrealistic judgement, is one which travels through a narrow wormhole to infinite space with no gravity. This moment might also teleport itself…
The fact that BMW appears to be happy about this movie’s existence despite its anti-capitalistic nature is confusing
"References*" shows a shift in the practices of the participating artists that is fresh and welcome on the local scene.
In 1994, Ali Shaath and three of his colleagues, Sa’id al-Qidra, Mustafa Harara, and Majd al-Khalidi drove from Cairo to Palestine. It would be Ali’s first visit to the land…
Lutfi fills the space with many subjective experiences and narratives, allowing viewers to situate themselves in her work while bearing witness to representations of her experiences.
The first maker of electronic music wasn’t German but a 23-year-old Cairene Halim al-Dabh, who manipulated recordings of an ancient healing ceremony in the early 1940s.
Mai Elwakil reviews the Exposure 2013 exhibition at Lebanon's Beirut Art Center.
What does it mean for this kind of post-internet work to be randomly inserted into Cairo’s visual vernacular?
Last April a group of activists, academics, architects and those who have become obsessed, in one way or another, with the failures and future of megacities, met at the American University…
He’s always pushing sonic boundaries while still engaging listeners, luring post-rave refugees into a visceral journey of glitchy roads and intelligent techno.
As post-revolutionary Egypt gets more complicated, Jehane Noujaim's film simplifies things more and more.
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