On Friday, Zawya's second night of “Shorts Revisited” was at full capacity. A crowd waited eagerly at the cinema's entrance. But this crowd was full of faces new to the…
The Arab uprisings presented an opportunity for Western cultural institutions and donors in Europe and the Middle East to break free of restrictive binaries and stereotypical depictions of the “West”…
Microphone has a deep admiration for creative people, specifically those who build their niches in hostile environments
Cairo’s streets have been overtaken by a new kind of political rhetoric. A barrage of hastily scrawled “anti-coup” graffiti covers walls, billboards, sidewalks, garbage cans, trees — almost any surface…
Four hundred copies of Walls of Freedom are still being held by the customs authority more than two months after their confiscation,…
On Wednesday, privately owned newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the customs authority in Alexandria had seized 400 copies of a book documenting…
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