Art & Culture
Conversation With Haytham El-Wardany
On Monday evening, Cimatheque Alternative Film Center in downtown Cairo celebrated the release of Haytham El-Wardany’s latest collection of short stories, Ma la yumkin islahuh [What ……Read More
Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Produce, Consume, Conserve: A Symposium on Egyptian Popular Culture
On January 17 and 18, artists, scholars, critics, editors, and assorted others came together for a symposium structured around the production, consumption, and conservation of popular ……Read More
Art & Culture
Two Plays by Ahmad Meree, in Arabic with English Surtitles, in Toronto
Two plays by Syrian playwright Ahmad Meree, in Arabic with English surtitles, made the “Now Toronto” list of 15 theatre shows to see in 2020: The double ……Read More
Art & Culture
‘Exiled at Home’: A Film Featuring Syrian Author Khaled Khalifa
“Exiled at Home“ is a short film by Lina Sinjab, centered around acclaimed Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, who recently announced that he will not be traveling to ……Read More
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Launching Manara: a ‘MENA Theatre Invasion of the United Kingdom’
The brand new Manara Theatre — brainchild of award-winning playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak and Hannah Khalil — will launch, as part of London’s Shubbak Festival, with a series ……Read More
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Naguib Mahfouz Museum
The long-awaited Naguib Mahfouz Museum — a museum for Egypt’s only Nobel literature laureate — is set to open not on December 11, the author’s birthday, ……Read More