Jenifer Evans

Visitors to next month’s TransDance festival may find themselves challenged by its performances, most of which are either silent or…

ALEXANDRIA — In “After the Flood,” the only Egyptian film competing in the 28th Alexandria Film Festival, an Egyptian brought…

ALEXANDRIA — One of the most interesting factors in short filmmaking is the need for succinctness, getting straight to the…

Contemporary dance has an intimidating reputation. Those of us with little knowledge of it tend to have fixed ideas of…

Abderrahim lives near the Turin migrant detention center he was previously held in. While waiting to see if he will…

An increasing awareness of Egypt's photographic heritage may be damaging that very legacy, as flawed archiving systems benefit those in…

A “museum” has been set up by an international group of four people — one of whom is Egypt Independent’s…

LUXOR — In 1910, French novelist Pierre Loti wrote of the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor: “The thing that dominates…

There’s an expression in Egyptian dialect that comes from the word parachute, yibarshut, which means to arrive uninvited and benefit…

On 16 January, two days after Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned, Mohamed Tawfik drew a simple cartoon. In…