Items related to Ramadan

Two young guys make “music” on turntables, one singing with a voice distorter. His father walks in and belittles their work. The friend, spinning and eating a Maxibon, eats the father. “Abooooyaaaaa,” says the singer before he too gets eaten.
Ramadan ads you won't forget
Nevine El Shabrawy 21 Aug 2012
Every Ramadan, the ad scene seems to get more and more intense. Like the US during the Super Bowl, ad space during...
  This Ramadan, TV dramas try to dig deeper into the character and psyche of “thugs.” Actor Aser Yasin starred this year in "The Thug."
What’s in an image: Real thugs and Ramadan thugs
Mohamed Elmeshad 20 Aug 2012
“What do you mean by thug, exactly?” was the first question on Gamal Saber’s mind when I asked him...
Inside the stock market of commercials
Omar Halawa 18 Aug 2012
Besides soaps, talk shows and religious segments, which are common features of the Ramadan media diet, a sprawling...
Ramadan by the Mediterranean
Soraya Morayef 18 Aug 2012
For many Egyptian holiday seekers, the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan doesn’t necessarily mean the...
Mawa'ed Rahman (Merciful Tables) set up in Maadi
Iftar of mercy: Traditional Ma’edat al-Rahman help the poor break their fast
Nabila Magdy 18 Aug 2012
She sat in front of me, focusing on her plate silently for more than half an hour, and then suddenly left the table as...
Breaking the fast together
Marcus Benigno 18 Aug 2012
Some 300 orphans participated in an iftar hosted by the Rotaract Club recently, an annual event marking the Ramadan...
Actor Mostafa Shaaban and one of his four wives in the 2012 Ramadan TV drama, “The Fourth Wife”
What's in an image: Women of the small screen
Mai Shams El-Din 17 Aug 2012
  A family’s strongman in an Upper Egyptian village sits confidently home as he receives congratulations for...
  In “Premeditated,” Ghada Abdel Razek stars as a shrewd yet corrupt lawyer
What's in an image: Class drama in Ramadan
Noha El-Hennawy 16 Aug 2012
For decades, the highpoint of Ramadan’s drama had been a serial about an idealistic middle class character who...
Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher
The sounds of ‘Sunset Oasis’
Mohga Hassib 15 Aug 2012
“I don’t mean to say that I am more intelligent than he, or that I see things he is incapable of seeing. It...
TV and the people: Ramadan channel trades soaps for politics
Omar Halawa 12 Aug 2012
Cairo’s street and bridges were strewn with billboards bearing the phrase “Al-Qahira wal Nas”...