Jenna Krajeski

Remzi, a 26-year-old Kurd from southeast Turkey, has a pretty typical life story for someone like him. A child during…

ISTANBUL - Istanbul's SALT Art Institute has, according to a recent interview with Research and Programs Director Vasif Kortun, one…

In 2009 the HaRaKa Dance Research and Development Project, then in its fourth year, began collaborating with international artists on…

The Townhouse gallery’s Popular Show -- a collection of hundreds of works by Cairo's amateurs and professionals -- may have…

In front of an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds at Cairo’s Journalists' Syndicate Wednesday night, Ahmed Mahir, the founder of the…

Over the past weeks, a lot of Cairo's ordinary objects have been transformed by their participation in the revolution. Street…

Since 25 January, Egypt’s many museums and archaeological sites have been the victims of looting. Yesterday, it was announced that…

Because women were left off the committee to revise the constitution, many worry that their demands will not be heard…

In the days following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians have begun to outline the characteristics of their ideal…

Over the past twelve days, the demonstrations have dominated Egyptian television. But not all coverage has been equal. In fact,…

The death toll so far during Cairo's days of protests is much higher than reported in the news, according to…

Yesterday’s Cairo Photo Marathon seems to have gone off without a (major) hitch, but that doesn’t mean that it came…

This Saturday’s Cairo Photo Marathon, a one-day photography experiment sponsored by the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI) and International Media…

It’s easy for a visitor to New York City to jam their itineraries with many fine things--the Empire State Building,…

In spite of some of its darker offerings--oil paintings of ghostly figures, photos of gutted Cairo landmarks, a large work…

A lot happened on the Cairo cultural scene in 2010. Here, presented in no particular order, are some of the…

The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the…

International film festivals are somewhat about pride in your country, and no film in the festival thus far has featured…

Moroccan director Daoud Aoulad-Syad's excellent entry into the Cairo International Film Festival could be called a sequel. Syad's previous entry…

Making a movie takes a lot of control: control of the lighting, the environment, the actors' expressions and lines, all…