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100Copies • 19 min read
Controversial tunes: D-CAF’s music, 100Copies and mahraganat
Maha ElNabawi | This year’s edition left both audiences and artists frustrated over the curation and management of
29 April 2015
8% • 11 min read
Assessing two films on mahragan music
Maha ElNabawi | In my experience, good music documentaries are structured around a question or quest. In “Searching
4 May 2014
8% • 7 min read
From tok toks to TV: New film gets to the heart of mahraganat
Maha ElNabawi | “We have four social segments in Egypt: the poorer than poor, the poor, the middle class and the upper
20 March 2014
Amr 7a7a • 10 min read
You just got mahraganed
Andeel | It’s going to be difficult for you to like mahraganat if you’re the kind of person who asks the waiter
22 September 2013
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