Jenifer Evans

“The Magic of the State,” held last month at the Beirut art space in Agouza, took a lot of time.…

Hassan Khan’s film “Blind Ambition” reminds me of high drama, westerns, myths, operas. But it’s only 46 minutes long and…

I met the 10 InterLAB/Tele-exhibition collaborators less than 48 hours after they had met each other for the first time…

“Battles of Images” was a series of talks centered around an examination of photojournalism and its links to aid held…

One of Faten El Disouky’s works is a huge yellow cuboid of foam. It comes up to about waist-high, and…

  Though I’ve managed to overcome many of the challenges that face women in the patriarchal society in which we…

“I’ve been watching this film for three days and I haven’t been the same,” said Moukhtar Kocache. “Walking in the…

Indian author Amitav Ghosh wrote “In an Antique Land” in 1992. It has two parallel narratives, one about his stay…

Ahmed Kassim handles paint confidently. He uses it in a relaxed way. He paints silhouettes and fills them in cursorily…

Azin Feizabadi is in Cairo, hosted by the art initiative Beirut. His presence is visible as you approach Beirut’s villa…

At a commercial gallery in Zamalek, there is currently an exhibition of work by an Egyptian painter and writer who…

Perhaps 2013 was not the best year to be guest of honor at the Cairo International Book Fair. Although the…

The crisp, experimental, semi-fictional documentary, “Logical Revolts,” was shot in late 2011 and early 2012 in downtown Cairo, Port Said…

Several dog-eared issues of Al-Hilal magazine from the 1950s and 1960s came from Beirut to Cairo last week for Lebanese…

BRISTOL, UK — In a museum room with parquet and expensive flowery wallpaper — dark blue, soft, shiny — the…

“What does a drawing want?” is Beirut in Cairo’s second exhibition, and its first group show. Presented as “a draft…

Despite some disappointments and tragedies, this has been an unusually exciting year for contemporary art in Egypt. Significant independent initiatives…

To make a vinyl record, grooves are cut into the lacquer on an aluminum disc. This “dubplate” is used to…

Among the photographs, videos and text pieces that make up the bulk of work in PhotoCairo 5 are six small…

ISTANBUL — Artist, musician and writer Hassan Khan’s selected survey exhibition at SALT is like a mystery scattered with various…