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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The death toll so far during Cairo's days of protests is much higher than reported in the news, according to doctors at one of Cairo's largest hospitals.
A resident doctor at the hospital who was assisting with surgeries yesterday told Al-...
Police put prominent opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei under house arrest, a security source told AP.
The departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime is "imminent," ElBaradei said earlier, minutes after a crowd of...
Yesterday’s Cairo Photo Marathon seems to have gone off without a (major) hitch, but that doesn’t mean that it came without challenges. Events in Tunisia and ongoing sectarian tension meant heightened security around an already heavily...
This Saturday’s Cairo Photo Marathon, a one-day photography experiment sponsored by the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute (DEDI) and International Media Support (IMS) and coordinated by Osama Dawod, differs slightly from its predecessor. For...
It’s easy for a visitor to New York City to jam their itineraries with many fine things--the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Central Park. And, while all of this island life has its own worth--climbing through Lady...
In spite of some of its darker offerings--oil paintings of ghostly figures, photos of gutted Cairo landmarks, a large work called “Dark City”--the Futuropolis exhibition currently on display at the Saad Zaghloul Cultural Center is not,...
A lot happened on the Cairo cultural scene in 2010. Here, presented in no particular order, are some of the highlights:
A stunning new movie in wide cinematic release addresses the topic of sexual harassment in Egypt. Seeing “678” is,...
The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the Polish entry in the International Competition at this year’s Cairo International...
International film festivals are somewhat about pride in your country, and no film in the festival thus far has featured its home terrain more than Switzerland’s “Sauvage”, starring Jean-Luc Bideau and directed by Jean-Pierre...
Moroccan director Daoud Aoulad-Syad's excellent entry into the Cairo International Film Festival could be called a sequel. Syad's previous entry won Best Arab Film in the 31st year of the CIFF. "Waiting for Pasolini" told the story...
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