critic’s pick

Whether you want to dance the drunken night away, or wallow in solitary self-pity, Bahr Abu Greisha is your man.…

Last June, a famous olive oil soap “fossil” from the brand Nabolsy Shahin was exhibited in a vitrine at the…

Mostafa Mahmoud’s 2004 “The Devil Rules” is a book about hippies, rising drug abuse and Western supremacy over the Arab…

Indian author Amitav Ghosh wrote “In an Antique Land” in 1992. It has two parallel narratives, one about his stay…

In a moment of questionable parenting, when I was five my father gave me animated adaptations of “Animal Farm” (the…

The crisp, experimental, semi-fictional documentary, “Logical Revolts,” was shot in late 2011 and early 2012 in downtown Cairo, Port Said…

Readers often ask why no Arab or Muslim authors are writing books like the “Harry Potter” or “Narnia” series. Now,…

“Of the martyrs of the revolution we lost before we even thought of a revolution,” wrote a tweep on her…

On Mashrou Leila’s latest album is the song “Inni Mnih” (I’m All Right). The opening line of the lyric can…

Reham Alaa, a 27-year-old painter, launched her first solo exhibition on 26 June. Despite the rundown venue of the Cairo…