Jenna Krajeski
Culture Editor
Jenna Krajeski is a writer and editor living in Cairo. Her reviews and reporting have been published in The New Yorker, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bookforum, Tar Magazine, and the Poetry Foundation. Prior to Al-Masry Al-Youm, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker, where she co-founded the books blog, The Book Bench.
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Remzi, a 26-year-old Kurd from southeast Turkey, has a pretty typical life story for someone like him. A child during the brutal 1990s, when paranoia and military violence ravaged Turkey, Remzi and his family were forced to leave their village for...
ISTANBUL - Istanbul's SALT Art Institute has, according to a recent interview with Research and Programs Director Vasif Kortun, one primary goal: "to stand for innovation and change." This was apparent last week, when the art space,...
In 2009 the HaRaKa Dance Research and Development Project, then in its fourth year, began collaborating with international artists on a series of performances and projects called Force Majeure. The program, set to debut in Egypt in 2011, featured...
The Townhouse gallery’s Popular Show -- a collection of hundreds of works by Cairo's amateurs and professionals -- may have ended its run a few days ago, but the mark it left on the local art scene is indelible. The show was a way for...
In front of an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds at Cairo’s Journalists' Syndicate Wednesday night, Ahmed Mahir, the founder of the 6 April Youth Movement, announced the group’s future plans. 6 April had been engaged in internal debates...
Over the past weeks, a lot of Cairo's ordinary objects have been transformed by their participation in the revolution. Street signs dented with rubber bullets; stones arranged into the Egyptian flag; graffiti bidding an unapologetic farewell to...
Since 25 January, Egypt’s many museums and archaeological sites have been the victims of looting. Yesterday, it was announced that 54 items are missing from the Egyptian Museum, contrary to the claims of former Secretary General of the Supreme...
Because women were left off the committee to revise the constitution, many worry that their demands will not be heard in a post-Mubarak Egypt. In order to prevent that, a number of activists--men and women--are planning a Million Woman March for 3PM...
In the days following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians have begun to outline the characteristics of their ideal country. The “New Egypt” will be clean, it will lack discrimination, it will be corruption-free. The...
Over the past twelve days, the demonstrations have dominated Egyptian television. But not all coverage has been equal. In fact, images of the protests broadcast on state-run television--including channels 1, 2 and Nile TV--compared to the dominant...
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