Year Ender

2011 has been eventful, inspiring, and sometimes depressing. The following critics’ picks try to capture the conflicting emotions of the year.…

In today’s interconnected world, every human sitting at a computer or walking around with a smart phone can tweet and…

“Boy” (New Zealand). Coming-of-age films are usually little more than a list of calculated clichés— the loss of innocence, the…

"The Forgotten Ones" (Morocco). An acclaimed film that received many awards worldwide, "The Forgotten Ones," from writer-director Hassan Benjelloun, tackles…

“Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad” (Downtown Collection) by Mekkawi Said. This collection of short stories from the award-winning author of “Swan song”…

For the entire month of February 2010, an air conditioning unit was fixed to the Palace of the Arts’ façade,…

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