"Maybe it’s about the revolution, but it’s definitely not about Tahrir or January 25, or the way we were romanticizing it," says Ahmad Abdalla about Rags and Tatters.
Imagine an Egypt where stereotypical gender roles are reversed — an Egypt where men stay home cooking, cleaning and raising children while their wives are out bringing home the bread.…
“The Square,” a documentary film by Egyptian-American director Jehane Noujaim about the January 2011 revolution, is among 15 films selected for the Oscar shortlist for documentary features in 2014. Just one day after the…
'Brain Damage' emphasizes painting as a living and contemporary medium that can engage the public.
Unless text is truly part of the work, notes like this feel like a conceptual get-out-of-jail-free card for works that supposedly need explanation
You can’t catch every show you’re supposed to. Especially in Egypt, where politics and life come crashing together with such force that you can simply be swept away, tangled in…
It’s 11:30 pm on Thursday in downtown Cairo. About 200 people are at the opening of the new performance space, bar and café, Vent.
The Cairo Contemporary Dance Center, the first professional training program of its kind in Egypt, opened in January 2012. It was housed and funded by the Culture Ministry and headed…
I’ll never forget the first time I watched mahragan singer/MC Sadat El Alamy perform on stage, almost a year ago at the iconic downtown Cairo club After Eight. I was…
Marianne Khoury is busy, and her Misr International Films office is bustling with people streaming in and out as they prepare for the sixth edition of the Panorama of the…
Film director Maged al-Mahdy expected questions when he went to the screening of his film, "I don't speak very well, I dance better," at the Opera House film club earlier…
Against the backdrop of the Nile and Cairo’s city lights, James Locksmith warmed up the launch of Red Bull’s Quarter Tone Frequency radio show with an erratic set that touched…
Ahmad Abdullah's Rags and Tatters is a document for an impossible memory, says Lina Attalah.
There is an implied admission of a sick, hysterical relationship between authors and readers living in a country that is going through excellently trite and tacky times, with all the…
For the past two or three years, Egypt’s electronic dance music scene has been utterly dominated by a cold, four-to-the-floor, synthetic-based brand of deep house. Packed with mind-warping sub-bass, semi-complex…
Is this what things have come to? Instead of artworks, we get therapy? And why does it feel so good?
"What I’m hoping to do is show contemporary art that is a bit more progressive and critical, but in a commercial context.”
Often when I attend shows of popular art forms from different parts of Egypt, something leaves me a little uncomfortable, but I swallow it down to enjoy the show. It’s…
The corridors of the maternity hospital were packed with doctors, medical staff and even patients who had got up from their beds. Security personnel fought with passersby who were trying…
Deeb is a rapper for the ages, a Generation-Y musician with his frequency tuned to the music of eras past. Known for his euphonious yet socially-conscious lyrics, fluid rap flow,…
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