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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Making a movie takes a lot of control: control of the lighting, the environment, the actors' expressions and lines, all to produce something that is ultimately judged on how well it reflects real life. This irony and the people caught in the...
In a recent piece on the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), journalist Sherif Awad complained that, because of low ticket sales, the festival has had to rely on private sponsors. This support, however, may force the festival to cater to the...
74-year-old Peruvian-Spanish author Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced earlier today. Llosa, a novelist, playwright, politician, and essayist, is perhaps best known for his novels, which...
Yesterday at the beautiful marble promenade in Al Azhar park, a huge crowd gathered for the opening of the Cairo International Circus festival, a two stage, two and a half week series of performances by circus troupes from Belgium to Palestine,...
In a new series called "World culture," the Al-Masry Al-Youm culture staff reviews the week’s best, worst, and biggest in art, books, cinema, and more.
Star Wars might be coming out in 3-D, for better or for worse. Anyone interested...
Egypt is home to dozens of museums, from downtown’s hugely popular Egyptian Museum to the strange and too-often overlooked Agricultural Museum. Each Wednesday, as part of a new series focusing on the diverse world of Egyptian treasures...
In a new series called "World culture," the Al-Masry Al-Youm culture staff reviews the week’s best, worst, and biggest in art, books, cinema, and more.
An excerpt from Mark Cousin’s debut film called, appropriately, The First...
Norman Rush’s novel “Mating” is one of those terrific books that suffers from any attempt to summarize its plot. It involves, but is far from limited to, a nameless female anthropologist performing Herculean tasks in an...
Throughout Ramadan we have presented selections from Arabic literature old and new, drawing from Naguib Mahfouz and Salwa Bakr. Now, for the last installment of our Alf Leila We Leila series, we return to Sheherazade and her most famous character,...
Siwa, Egypt's vast and isolated western oasis, is not exactly known for its cool summers. Average highs for August and early September hover around 38C, and feature a sun that not even a good thatch of dried palm leaves can thoroughly protect a...
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