Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
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Helen contributes to the culture section of Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition. She graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, United States with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Russian Literature. Before moving to Egypt, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia. Her website is www.helenstuhrrommereim.com.
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When Shayma Kamel speaks about her work, she laughs a lot. She has rolled up into her painting-collages a whole collection of intertwining jokes that the average viewer might not notice. Kamel clearly takes joy in her work, and whether or not you...
In today’s interconnected world, every human sitting at a computer or walking around with a smart phone can tweet and blog and tumble and Facebook and Flickr, uploading almost every thought and experience they have to the internet. While this...
What does the peaceful and wealthy country of Sweden have in common with downtown Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the staging ground of Egypt’s revolution? Swedish meatballs, smoked salmon and lingonberry jam, of course.
For months we eagerly...
The sea seemingly remains the only space on earth not divided and controlled down to the last square centimeter. Classically embodying mystery, danger, and opportunity, throughout history, it has been a space where humans battle nature to dominate...
Entering the world of online glitch art can feel like stepping into your worst computer nightmare. Error messages, garbled code and corrupted images are a pervading aesthetic. Sometimes turning technology inside out, sometimes capturing moments of...
A couple of hours before the screening of the documentary “Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad, and the Politician” at the 4th Panorama of the European Film on Friday 25 November, one participant in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square...
One of Egypt’s most celebrated contemporary artists, Wael Shawky, makes work of a grand and complicated scale. His recent half-hour long film “Cabaret Crusade: The Horror File” is the first installment in what he plans will...
There is an uncanny consistency to super group charity singles. Whether it is Sting, Michael Jackson, or Tamer Hosny standing at the microphone, you can be sure he will be shaking his head back and forth, eyes closed, clutching his headphones with...
Once a year, the winding pathways of the Palace of the Arts are filled with the creative efforts of Egypt’s aspiring generation of artists, the most worthy 300 or so culled from a submission pool of over a thousand. Such a massive output of...
The survival of the elusive, blubbery sea-trawler known as the dugong is hanging in delicate balance amid ever-increasing development, tourism and pollution off of Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
The dugong, a marine mammal in the manatee family, has...
