Ali Abdel Mohsen

The most noticeable thing about Assiut city’s Abu Bakr al-Sideeq Mosque isn’t the building itself, which stands almost camouflaged among…

Whether you want to dance the drunken night away, or wallow in solitary self-pity, Bahr Abu Greisha is your man.…

It’s not shaaby, and it’s not moulid music. It’s a mahragan, or a “festival,” and Sadat should know, considering he’s…

Two decades ago, the Nigerian film industry was non-existent; today, "Nollywood" produces more films a year than its American namesake…

After traveling the world when its writer could not, Nassim Soleimapour’s much-translated, critically-acclaimed “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” received its stage…

During a lull in Friday’s violence, protesters gathered across from a Moqattam mosque to buy refreshments from a kiosk through…

  Over the past 26 months, Egyptians have protested in public squares, outside state-run institutions and, more than once, at…

It was to be a mind-bending spectacle. The sun would rise, and then again, and again, so that three fiery…

In a moment of questionable parenting, when I was five my father gave me animated adaptations of “Animal Farm” (the…

A 12-car train carrying hundreds of Central Security Forces conscripts left Upper Egypt for Cairo on Monday afternoon. Before midnight,…

Outside a courthouse built to resemble an ancient Egyptian sun temple, a group of protestors chants against their “Pharaoh.” Cairo’s…

We met the maestro at the bus stop. I hadn’t known what to expect; face-paint, maybe, or a necklace made…

After a week of tumultuous polarization, Egyptians headed to the ballot boxes in what would be their eighth election since…

Despite its location, there hasn’t been much coverage of the Salafi sit-in outside Media Production City; possibly due to the…

“Shave your beard and show us your face, so we can see your true disgrace: you look just like Mubarak!”

LUXOR — Despite the fact that it now hosts two international film festivals, the city of Luxor hadn’t seen a…

It doesn’t really matter what type of music Lazzy Lung performs. After watching the band open for the Black Lips…

They didn’t set anything on fire, and nobody got arrested — both signs of commendable restraint by a band known…

LUXOR — When it was first pitched to the National Cinema Center, one of the main selling points of the…

LUXOR — And so begins a new age; one in which Egypt would again emerge as the cinema capital of…