Visiting El Cabina for the first time in 2012 marked the beginning of my love affair with Alexandria. Completely transformed from an abandoned building that once housed the air-conditioning unit…
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…
Tucked behind a coffeehouse in a bustling paper market in downtown Alexandria is Wekalet Behna. It’s an unlikely location for what was once one of the region’s most important film distribution companies. Reopened for two months now, the 12-room apartment hosts a filmmaking unit, cinema archive,…
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