Art

Ammar al-Sherei left us, but his legacy lives on

09 Dec 2012
Famous Egyptian musician, composer, arranger and critic Ammar al-Sherei sadly passed away on Friday at the age of 64, after a long struggle with heart disease. It is no exaggeration to say that he was one of the most influential Egyptian...
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Acclaimed Egyptian musician passes away at age of 64

07 Dec 2012
Acclaimed Egyptian musician Ammar al-Sherei passed away on Friday afternoon at the age of 64. He was transferred to the hospital two weeks ago, where he underwent two critical operations on his heart.  Sherei was among the most...
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Playful exhibition offers a rare chance to revisit Egypt’s photographic studios

Courtesy of Heba Farid
05 Dec 2012
Coming up to the former Hotel Viennoise on the third floor of the ramshackle but very grand and spacious 7 Champollion Street, there are blue, red, and gold hand-painted wooden signs advertising the “Studio Viennoise — by...
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Blackbirds and work songs: A watery meditation on times of transition

27 Nov 2012
On downtown’s Mahmoud Basiouny Street, at the corner with the After Eight café, you can duck into a dark, empty shop space to watch a film of a river. As the camera moves steadily forward between the river’s grassy banks, a...
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Internet humor becomes paintings in Hany Rashed's 'ASA7BY'

26 Nov 2012
The multitude of paintings that make up “ASA7BY,” Hany Rashed’s current exhibition at Mashrabia Gallery, may appear at first glance crudely painted and repetitive. Pencil lines are visible under the paint, and the...
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Arab artists show solidarity with Syrian refugees

21 Nov 2012
  KILIS, Turkey — The colorful balloons Egyptian activist Moushira Saleh gave Mohamed last week were among the few things that brought him joy. He was about to temporarily leave the Kilis refugee camp on the Turkish border as...
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PhotoCairo: A retrospective

Detail of Rana ElNemr's "Coastline" exhibited in PhotoCairo 3
20 Nov 2012
  In the late summer of 2002, at a small office of the ground floor of what is today the exhibition space of the Townhouse gallery, a group of artists, curators and volunteers were working around the clock. Some were debating the...
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Hanaa Abdelfattah - And his beautiful soul lives on

The late theater director, an actor, an author and translator Hanaa Abdelfattah
19 Nov 2012
I will not be able to do justice to the life of Hanaa Abdelfattah by writing here, for I only met him just over a year ago. I had the great privilege of accompanying him in some of his final days on this earth. At the hospital. In his home...
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More out of curiosity than conviction

Samir ElKordy’s 2012 “Monument of the Buzzwords” imagines a monument to the revolution built by remnants of the old regime
14 Nov 2012
Out of all the work that went into making PhotoCairo 5, by far the hardest thing for me was writing the curatorial text you see here and in the pocket guide. I wrote three drafts — a long, rambling rant shared months ago with...
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Beyond football: The creative transformation of Egypt's ultras

Courtesy of Ultras White Knights
13 Nov 2012
Since their formation in 2005, the Egyptian ultras have been called everything from “thugs” to “soccer hooligans.” They have been marked as “anarchists,” and, most recently, branded as “protectors...
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