A new rhythm: Cairo’s arts scene navigates reopening
“Our work revolves around the collective experience of watching films in a dark room."
“Our work revolves around the collective experience of watching films in a dark room."
2018 was a prolific year for Arab cinema, as evident from the line-up of this year’s Cairo Cinema Days. The third edition of the Zawya-organized event (the first to be…
“At the beginning, it was just a slogan … Now, we are really mapping possibilities”
This could've been it: a very feasible ending for Zawya. But it's not. It's a new beginning
Zawya proceeds with screening Doueiri's The Insult (2017), despite BDS backlash
Egypt's Censorship Board has refused to authorize the screening of three Egyptian short films as part of art-house cinema Zawya’s first Short…
What does it mean to screen what has historically been the cinema of European auteurs in Egypt, given the assemblages of power…
Art house cinema Zawya has taken up a weekly slot at Alexandria's Cinema Amir.
After being closed for years, mid-century movie theater Cinema Karim re-opened on January 28. Boasting 600 seats and located on the historic Emad Eddin Street in downtown…
Zawya is a single-screen cinema round the back of downtown Cairo’s Odeon Cinema. The cinema has a separate entrance and a newly…
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