Assessing two films on mahragan music
In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Malik Bendjelloul asked where Sixto Rodriguez was. Wim Wender’s “Buena Vista Social…
In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching for Sugar Man,” Malik Bendjelloul asked where Sixto Rodriguez was. Wim Wender’s “Buena Vista Social…
“We have four social segments in Egypt: the poorer than poor, the poor, the middle class and the upper class,” says Ortega from the back of a car in Cairo.…
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…
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