Naira Antoun

The crowd gathers quickly. In a burst of color and sound, the troupe drums, sings and dances, leading the growing…

A number of short films, ten in all, by upcoming Egyptian directors, each made within the past two years is…

 

In a sense, the text of a play is incomplete. It is written to be performed, more than to be…

A woman recounts her experience of sexual violence to you. It may be tempting if she is crying to tell…

There is barely a media outlet in Egypt that has not covered sexual violence in the wake of violations and…

The photographs of the fields, some romantically clouded with mist, the donkeys, the palm trees, the expanses of crops. Greens…

What’s the first thing that comes to your head when you hear the word Bedouin? For many of us, it…

Last Friday’s protests and subsequent clashes in front of the Ettehadiya Presidential Palace, underscored by the security forces’ assault of…

The place is bustling, as it is most nights. And there is pretty much no one here who would have…

Ahmed and Sherif, two regular young men of the same age, speak about their confined lives, one a soldier, the…

“Don’t believe everything you hear, even what I am telling you,” one of the narrators says. It is a classic…

Some of the most widely circulated images and clips in the past year and a half have been taken using…

Said to be the first film ever shown in public, “Workers leaving the factory” consists of a single shot of…

LONDON — When Tarek and Amal do food deliveries, they get glimpses into the homes of the wealthy. Sometimes the…

Its essence is in its name: Jadaliyya, stemming from the Arabic word jadal, which means dialectic. Put simply, the word…

  What is one of Egypt’s first independent theater troupes, El-Warsha, doing putting on a performance of a play written…

A number of activists and their friends spent Monday evening at the Rooftop Studios in downtown Cairo finding out about…

Since one of the country's first anti-sexual harassment protests in May, many men have taken part. To them, it seems…

“I’m not a fan of Om Kalthoum, to be honest, and yet I am still here. And many of the…