Jenifer Evans
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Jenifer is a copy editor and occasional writer for the culture section. Outside of Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition, Jenifer proofreads books for The American University in Cairo Press and is an artist who makes books, film, sculpture, painting, and installation. She is currently working on a seven-episode soap opera set in the Spanish Basque Country.
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This piece was written for Egypt Independent’s final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. We offer you our 50th and final edition here.
From street art to a kitsch 1970s film, books that capture the zeitgeist...
“The Magic of the State,” held last month at the Beirut art space in Agouza, took a lot of time. Dreamy and odd, but also super-informative if visitors wanted it to be, the four pieces on the villa’s ground floor and the three...
Nostalgia is such a confusing feeling. You listen to a sweet song and it makes you feel bad because it reminds you of your ex, or you love a tasteless unhealthy meal because it reminds you of your mother’s cooking and being a child.
“My...
Hassan Khan’s film “Blind Ambition” reminds me of high drama, westerns, myths, operas. But it’s only 46 minutes long and consists mostly of close-ups of actors out and about in Cairo, spouting lifelike dialogue, shot in a...
I met the 10 InterLAB/Tele-exhibition collaborators less than 48 hours after they had met each other for the first time — they have been working together for some months now, though. Until this past week, they had been communicating through...
“Battles of Images” was a series of talks centered around an examination of photojournalism and its links to aid held this month at the Contemporary Image Collective. The series’ ability to attract full audiences and attendees who...
One of Faten El Disouky’s works is a huge yellow cuboid of foam. It comes up to about waist-high, and you can touch it or sit on it if you like. But it just sits there, a normal material, quietly doing nothing.
Another piece is a slide...
Though I’ve managed to overcome many of the challenges that face women in the patriarchal society in which we live, still there are a lot more,” says Soheir Metwally, a poet and children’s writer.
Metwally is 51, a mother of...
“I’ve been watching this film for three days and I haven’t been the same,” said Moukhtar Kocache. “Walking in the streets of Cairo hasn’t been the same.”
The Contemporary Image Collective is currently...
Indian author Amitav Ghosh wrote “In an Antique Land” in 1992. It has two parallel narratives, one about his stay in a village in Egypt’s Delta in the early 1980s, the other on his detective work following 12th-century references...
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