This year's two biggest blockbusters, "El Gezira (The Island) and "Hena Maysara (In Better Times) dominated the 14th National Festival for Cinema awards on Wednesday.
"The Island scooped the biggest number of prizes of Egypt's equivalent of the (...)
Born in Alexandria, Aya Anwar Akel says her entrepreneurial impulse is rooted in her family's textile business. As a youngster she spent three summers working in textile stores in the United States. But realizing that she was less than enthusiastic (...)
The intimate, personal works of a number of novice directors using the latest art tools have been briefly put under the spotlight last week at the Second Cairo Mobile Film Festival, which ended on Tuesday.
Qafilat Hala institution and Egyptian (...)
Traveling to Morocco was a starting point for Mexican writer Alberto Ruy-Sánchez who, for the past few years, has been tracing out a new map, one that would bring Mexico closer to the Arab world.
A novelist and a non-fiction writer, poet and (...)
From Berlin to Cairo and back again, German filmmaker Piotr Reimer has been making waves in festival circuits with his recent family films.
Reimer, who is a father himself, has succeeded in capturing the essence of childhood, offering children an (...)
Bahaa Taher's latest novel "Wahet-El-Ghoroub (Sunset Oasis) is a story about contradictions born by the clear division between the east and the west symbolized in the novel by the juxtaposition between the oasis and the desert.
On March 17, Taher (...)
Bridging cultural differences and challenging language barriers, the 18th round of the Cairo International Film Festival for Children (CIFFC), which ended last week, featured works from 42 countries.
Participating countries, including Malaysia, (...)
With little publicity, no schedules or solid information, the recent Independent Theater Festival is a hidden mystery in the crammed Cairo culture calendar.
Having absolutely no idea what to expect, I entered the theater with caution to watch the (...)