Controversial tunes: D-CAF’s music, 100Copies and mahraganat
This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of the big-budget, well-publicized contemporary arts festival.
This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of the big-budget, well-publicized contemporary arts festival.
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.…
It’s going to be difficult for you to like mahraganat if you’re the kind of person who asks the waiter in the sheesha place for the plastic thingy that they…
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