Amir Makar on the use of photographs in media and propaganda, from the "Afghan Girl" to Sisi and the new canal.
In keeping with Egypt’s long and storied tradition of immediately commemorating national projects with a flurry of new artistic works, the New Suez Canal launches with an ecstatic soundtrack of…
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.
«Have you watched the videos that circulated on social media following the sentencing in Egypt last Monday of 21 revolutionaries to three to five years in…»
«Sometime in June, cars in Egypt began displaying plain sheets of A4 paper with the sentence: “Have you prayed for the Prophet today?” There was nothing…»
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