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Articles of the author Rowan El Shimi
ARCHIVES: The Salt of the Earth: Wenders captures a photographer on film
Screening as part of a short retrospective on German director Wim Wenders, his latest documentary, The Salt of the Earth, will be shown in Cairo during the Panorama of the European Film "A photographer is someone literally drawing with light. A man (...)

18 - 11 - 2015
VIDEO: Cairo's El-Mazzikateya jam with local musicians in Port Said's public spaces
Arts in public space initiative Mahatat for Contemporary Art invited Cairo's El-Mazzikateya to tour Port Said, Damietta, Mansoura and Cairo jamming with local musicians for each performance. Video by Rowan El (...)

13 - 12 - 2014
Local initiative Mahatat brings arts to city streets around Egypt
Artistic performances in public spaces are not new to Egypt; many folkoric arts used to take place in the street, including the aragoz (an Egyptian traditional puppet show), moulids (street festivals linked to religious celebrations) and the (...)

07 - 10 - 2014
VIDEO: Cairo festival celebrates dates and palm trees
In its second edition the Date Palm Festival brings together Egyptian environmentalists, foodies and families to celebrate the date harvest season on 26 September. The Date Palm Festival is organised by Slow Food Cairo, Nawaya, Ice-Ribh, Zooba and (...)

28 - 09 - 2014
Zawya cinema: Six months of essential art house
For cinephiles, Cairo is not necessarily the best of cities. Cinemas only feature Hollywood blockbusters and seasonal Egyptian productions that rarely offer anything authentic. Cairo's independent culture spaces hold one-off screenings and small (...)

24 - 09 - 2014
With Zelal screening in Cairo, mental patients unveil social issues
For as long as this generation can remember, mental illness has always borne a stigma. Since its sufferers are seen as "crazy", "insane" or at least "abnormal" when seeking professional mental help, they hide their illness from family, neighbours (...)

23 - 09 - 2014
Egypt's Medrar explores the city at Berlin Art Week
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Medrar for Contemporary Art, a Cairo-based artist-run space, is set to participate at Berlin Art Week with an exhibition entitled 'Profit | Prophet' in a collective group exhibition with German artists. The exhibition (...)

18 - 09 - 2014
Rock the Casbah: Amusing Moroccan-French film tackles societal challenges
Though Laila Marrakchi's star-studded Rock the Casbah provides an interesting look at modern Moroccan society, its predictable plotline and at times clichéd conversations limit its appeal P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } French-Moroccan film Rock the (...)

14 - 09 - 2014
Eka3 gives birth to Al-Moharek to infiltrate mainstream music
In a room in Cairo's newly opened Garden City art space,'Room', independent Palestinian, Egypt-based musician, Tamer Abu Ghazaleh tells a small audience of artists and members of the press the story of Eka3 and the launch of its new baby Al-Moharek (...)

04 - 09 - 2014
VIDEO: Les Petits Chats Singers to reunite in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
In Alexandria, Les Petits Chats Singers will be joined by Nayer Nagui who worked on some arrangements of the songs and who will also play piano. Rami Soussou will play keyboards, Elhamy Amin percussion. The backing vocals will include members of (...)

29 - 08 - 2014
Room for the arts opens in Garden City
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } In Garden City, one of the few neighbourhoods where one can still immerse oneself in Cairo's Belle Epoque architecture, a new space for the arts has opened its doors. "Room," a basement space, is composed of two separate (...)

24 - 08 - 2014
Shout Art Loud: Interesting interactive documentary with several drawbacks
Taking viewers on a ride through the Cairo Metro, filmmaker Melody Patry employs an unconventional style to create a documentary that shows Egyptian artists as they respond to the issue of sexual harassment. Shout Art Loud - which is available for (...)

20 - 08 - 2014
Segn Al-Nesa: Ramadan TV hit offers glimpse of life in women's prison
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } “Prison is not just a high fence and a locked door. Prison can be in a piece of clothing you don't want to wear, people you don't want to see, a job you hate. Prison is feeling broken and oppressed.” These words spoken (...)

21 - 07 - 2014
Mango Konafa showdown: A run-through of the Ramadan summer delicacy
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Coming roughly 10 days earlier every year, Ramadan has been hitting Cairo right in the scorching summer heat for a few years now. Muslims fast during the sizzling daytime and spend the evenings among family and friends – (...)

16 - 07 - 2014
VIDEO: Hayy Festival opens with Sudanese Alsarah concert
The annual Hayy Festival organised by Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafi opens its ninth season this Ramadan with a performance by Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist Alsarah acompanied by her band the Nubatones. She presents East-African (...)

13 - 07 - 2014
Crowdfunding for education in Egypt: Funding for civil society democratised
Five alternative education initiatives launch crowdfunding campaigns on indiegogo and Facebook simultaneously; Ahram Online talks to the initiatives about their challenges and opportunities In a country where the creative economy is challenged and (...)

08 - 07 - 2014
Street vendors shine in exhibition that opens Heytan graffiti space
Heytan — Arabic for Walls — is a project about which there has been much talk for almost three years. It was meant to open in early 2012, originally as Egypt's first space soley dedicated to street art. The opening never took place and the project (...)

25 - 06 - 2014
VIDEO: Independent music reaches Mansoura through El Fusion
The Cairo Jazz Agency has recently brought independent musicians to Mansoura city in the north of Egypt's Delta for an outdoor concert. Tunisian Ghalia Benali and Alexandrian Massar Egbari, along with Osama Elhady and his 050 Band from Mansoura, put (...)

23 - 06 - 2014
Independent music goes live from a living room in Cairo
Cairo's underground music scene just got a little more alternative. Music fans may be used to catching their favourite bands in theatres, bars and at festivals; but a group of young people are working to change that, by bringing musicians and fans (...)

19 - 06 - 2014
PHOTO GALLERY: Sofar event brings independent music to Cairo living room
The capital hosted its very first ‘Songs from a Room' (Sofar) on Tuesday 17 June. Sofar is a global music movement which started in London in 2009 and has since spread to more than 80 cities around the world. The location of the music event is (...)

19 - 06 - 2014
Doaa Hamza adapts Dario Fo monodrama to the Cairo stage
Italian writer, actor and Nobel Laureate Dario Fo tells a timeless and border-neutral tale in his 1977 classic text Il Risveglio (Waking Up) which follows a woman as she panics in the early morning at the notion of sleeping in and arriving late to (...)

10 - 06 - 2014
Dandin: Rendering alternative sounds from the Arab region accessible
Dandin.me hosts an archive of music and sound from Egypt and the Arabic world. Ahram Online sits with its founder to see how the online platform has progressed since its launch nine months ago If you've been following the creative explosion that has (...)

08 - 06 - 2014
VIDEO: Exhibition on jazz pioneer Sun Ra opens in Cairo
Cairo-based art space Medrar for Contemporary Art is currently hosting Belgian artist Tom Bogaert's exhibition 1971, Sun Ra in Egypt, which opened on 15 May. The exhibition features a wide range of art works by Bogaret, based on his ongoing research (...)

20 - 05 - 2014
In Pictures: Lebanese artist creates his Fictional Museum in Cairo
Within the visual arts programme presented by the Norwegian Red Zone festival, hosted by the Spring Festival in Cairo, Berlin-based Lebanese artist Said Baalbaki uses conceptual art and objects to blur the line between fiction and reality in a (...)

15 - 05 - 2014
I am Now Dead: Independent production back on stage after nine years
Nine years after it featured at the French Institute's Jeunes Créateurs (Young Creators) theatre festival, the black comedyI am Now Deadis back on stage at Falaki Theatre between 14 and 16 May. There are several factors that prompted director and (...)

13 - 05 - 2014
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