Andeel says that the blunt, solitary message of Al-Gezira 2 (The Island 2, 2014) is: Brotherhood bad, don’t play with them, government bad, play with them.
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.
Shortly after the outbreak of Turkey’s Gezi Park protests, Egyptian public forums were flooded with a variety of expressions that drew parallels between the respective situations in each of the…
Executive director of the Civilization Center for Political Studies and PhD candidate at Cairo University Medhat Maher was arrested last week for…
The Ministries of Endowments and Culture are going to work hand in hand to combat extremism, consolidate a sense of belonging to…
A representative from the Coptic Church threatened to withdraw from the 50-member committee tasked with drafting the new constitution on Sunday to…
«This process is essential for the continuation of the regime — a necessary act of political theater.»
«What the apocalypse and the uprisings across the Arab world teach us, is that we are not alone»
«Three years ago, Hassan al-Turabi (1932-2016) — Sudan's foremost theologian, who is known affectionately by his followers and ironically by his enemies as the sheikh —…»
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