Have you turned 30 yet? Have you started using phrases like, “10 or 15 years ago, when I was at college?” If so, please join me in some sentimentality for…
Though the word lazy isn’t really allowed in the art criticism lexicon anymore, frankly that’s what the exhibition feels like — and not in an intentional way.
It feels like Cairo’s made of cardboard — the colors, how temporary everything is.
“Egyptian Females Experimental Music Session,” a sonic tribute to Ahmed Basiouny, prompts your imagination to run wild.
Each week, Mada Masr convenes over breakfast and invites a friend whose work has stirred a curiosity among team members, often because of a tendency to push boundaries. This week…
The audience is not simply watching a play; we become unwitting attendees at a public meeting.
It’s been six months since singer songwriter Maii Waleed dropped her debut EP, “Moga.” The album’s already been written about. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be written about more. Because the beauty…
Nothing really dies in Cairo, it's always circulating.
«Wandering the streets of downtown Cairo you may have noticed a change in the tone of much of its street art over the last three years.…»
If 2012 was the year of bedroom artists, then 2013 is a year defined by living-room artists. At least that’s the case in Cairo, where inhabitants have been living under…
Andeel on what the film censors missed - with a particular focus on Terrorism and Kebab and other films by Sherif Arafa, Waheed Hamed and Adel Imam.
Fifteen-year-old Ahmed Ashraf is having the time of his life. An hour into the launch event of 100Copies’ new sublabel, ReTune Studio, and the downtown Cairo native is dancing his…
Type “contemporary art is” in a Google search, and the top three suggestions one gets are: “bullshit,” “a joke” and “stupid.”
It’s been a while since I’ve blacked out to live music. And no, I don’t mean the kind of alcohol-induced blackout that usually comes about from slamming back too many…
While the cancellation of the 36th Cairo Film Festival sent a ripple of concern through Egypt’s film community, if all goes as planned local film events may prove more resilient that most give them…
A Q&A with Hassan al-Geretly, director of Egypt’s oldest independent theater troupe Al-Warsha, which was established in 1987.
Stories make both a big and small claim to knowledge and truth: small in that a story does not claim to represent more than a person’s experience, and big in…
It is the fall of 2000, and a group of young university students, actors and a couple of stagehand personnel are lurking in the darkness of the college theater. I’m…
Q&A with Medrar director Mohamed Allam about a festival that has screened hundreds of experimental and low-budget video works from around the world.
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