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‘A Tunisian Tale’: A grim delight

‘A Tunisian Tale’: A grim delight

The spark at the center of Hassouna Mosbahi’s short novel, “A Tunisian Tale,” is a human immolation. As in the…
Photo show captures Bob Dylan as young rock star

Photo show captures Bob Dylan as young rock star

Rare photographs of Bob Dylan, shot over a year-long period in the mid-1960s, go on show in Paris next week…
Contemporary dance at Townhouse: The close gaze

Contemporary dance at Townhouse: The close gaze

Karima Mansour and Daria Gusberti’s multimedia dance performance, “Whilst closely gazing at the soup...” is not to be missed. The…
Traveling under ‘The Seven Skies’

Traveling under ‘The Seven Skies’

“He who passes place and time lightly, Doesn’t let place enslave him, or time waste him” (From “The Beauty of…
Delights at Theodor’s

Delights at Theodor’s

Nestled away under the knobby tree canopies of Road 15 in Maadi lies a self-proclaimed antique and vintage store named…
A grand attempt to draw connections across the continent

A grand attempt to draw connections across the continent

The exhibition “Visionary Africa: Art at Work” currently on display near the entrance to Al-Azhar Park is a project of…
Man is the true legend in ‘Soul Boy’

Man is the true legend in ‘Soul Boy’

Screened at the Luxor African Film Festival last weekend, the Kenyan film “Soul Boy” is a seminal production in African…
Authorities ban film featuring Muslim-Copt love story, intellectuals say

Authorities ban film featuring Muslim-Copt love story, intellectuals say

Censorship authorities have banned the screening of a movie that features a love story between a Coptic woman and a Muslim man,…
Mubarak regime figures remain a Lebanese taboo

Mubarak regime figures remain a Lebanese taboo

Lebanese censors on Saturday reversed their decision to ban “On the Importance of Being an Arab,” a monodrama by Egyptian…
Soueif’s ‘Cairo: My City’ spins stories within stories to keep a revolution alive

Soueif’s ‘Cairo: My City’ spins stories within stories to keep a revolution alive

  Ahdaf Soueif’s “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution” is an addition to the blossoming genre of “revolution diary” literature. It…
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