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‘A Tunisian Tale’: A grim delight
March 4, 2012
‘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
March 3, 2012
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
March 1, 2012
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’
February 29, 2012
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
February 28, 2012
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
February 28, 2012
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’
February 27, 2012
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
February 27, 2012
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
February 26, 2012
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
February 26, 2012
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…