Art
Rapping with 'fear and respect' in Saudi Arabia
06 Nov 2012
Making hip hop in Saudi Arabia is a bit of a tightrope act, says Qusai Kheder, self-styled ambassador for the genre who has built a niche following for his sex-and-violence free brand of rap music.
"Saudi Arabia is a very...
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Political Veggies: Launching ‘The Non-Egyptian Restaurant’ in Ard al-Lewa
02 Nov 2012
Like most Egyptians, the residents of Ard al-Lewa begin their day with a bowl of fuul and a potato and tahina sandwich, the most filling breakfast option for tight budgets. The irony is that the buildings they currently live and eat in sit...
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Egyptian 'Soul' through the eyes of Shayma Kamel
01 Nov 2012
There is something particularly luring about the artwork of 32-year-old Shayma Kamel. It is difficult to pinpoint what exactly it is as she has already produced such a large and varied body of work by such a young age. But her latest...
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Profile: Two Cairo-based artists start a liberating collaboration
30 Oct 2012
It was loneliness that prompted artists Hady Kamar and Jenifer Evans to start working together, Kamar jokingly says about their collaboration for the past few months.
So far, their series of screen prints on paper, layered with textual and...
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Some hits, but quite a lot of misses at TransDance 2012
29 Oct 2012
There’s something risky about going to see performance art and contemporary dance — especially dance that is not performed on a stage. You agree to put yourself in a situation where you might be a participant. Someone might...
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Blog: A day skirting around downtown Cairo
29 Oct 2012
Even for those who have never set foot in downtown Cairo, it seems familiar, especially after images of Tahrir Square and its stenciled side streets have made it to most news channels over the past year and a half. So, when the...
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Internet art in real life
26 Oct 2012
Internet art can bypass galleries, museums and the money that gives the art world its glamorous hierarchy of exclusivity. People who make Internet art often stick to their Internet communities, while those who overly concern themselves...
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Humming the oldest tune in history
23 Oct 2012
Listening to Quranic verses and prayers playing on the radio while riding a cab is common in Cairo. But recently, Coptic psalms are likely to catch your ears as well.
The Coptic Orthodox Church has closely guarded Coptic hymns within its...
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Mini Radio Academy tunes into Alexandria's sonic landscape
21 Oct 2012
ALEXANDRIA — The high windows of Hotel Crillon on Alexandria’s Mediterranean coastline give out onto a stunning horizon. But open them, and with a gust of fresh sea air honking trucks and car horns aggressively burst...
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Kafka in Cairo: Re-staging ‘The Penal Colony’
20 Oct 2012
What is one of Egypt’s first independent theater troupes, El-Warsha, doing putting on a performance of a play written by a European in 1914? In restaging Franz Kafka’s “The Penal Colony,”is El-Warsha trying...
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