How familiar are film lovers in the West with North African and Middle Eastern films? They probably know more about films from India, China and Japan and other art forms like music and literature from these regions.
This might change; Egypt was (...)
Many have tried, many have failed. Cairo has layers within layers, stretching across centuries and millennia where to begin, where to end! According to Janet Abu-Lughod's foreword to ‘Understanding Cairo' by David Sims, published by the American (...)
CAIRO - The American University in Cairo Press publishes beautiful art books. They can undoubtedly take a place of honour in anybody's library.
‘Twentieth-Century Egyptian Art ��" The Private Collection of Sherwat Shafei' by Mona Abaza (AUC Press, (...)
