TOPIC visual culture
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COVID-19 • 18 min read
A new rhythm: Cairo’s arts scene navigates reopening
Nada Nabil | “Our work revolves around the collective experience of watching films in a dark room."
31 August 2020
obituaries • 24 min read
In loving memory of Dalia Suleiman: Cultural worker, friend and cat lover
“So much of what the culture scene is today was built through the efforts of people like her.”
23 August 2020
Beyond the Factory • 1 min read
Video | Beyond the factory: Kiln of discovery
Nour Pleutin | This is the story of Abdel Sattar's workplace, a pottery workshop in the village of Tunis, Fayoum.
12 December 2019
film reviews • 20 min read
The son of death who brought Sudanese cinema to life
Hussam Hilali | On Amjad Abu Alala’s You Will Die at Twenty
2 October 2019
1919 revolution • 22 min read
What’s the first image that comes to mind when you think of the 1919 revolution?
Hakim Abdelnaeem | I want to question the approach that treats the 1919 revolution as a single narrative, condensing it
26 April 2019
visual culture • 13 min read
Modern Egypt: On objects that represent the world
Mohammad Shawky Hassan | The way the project displayed commodities failed to reveal new things about them or those who made them.
17 November 2016
feminism • 10 min read
Now That’s What I Call Arab Pop (vol 1): The rise of the soul-stealer
Ada Petiwala | Video killed the radio star, but YouTube killed the music video channel, and thousands of video clips
27 July 2015
cinema • 14 min read
Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation
Ahmed Refaat | Egyptian civil society, after the rollercoaster we all have all been on since the revolution, is rethinking
14 March 2015
Aleya Hamza • 32 min read
A history of CIC’s 10 years in posters
Jenifer Evans | On the 10th birthday of the exhibition space, library, photography school and photographic facility,
18 February 2015
 
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Beyoncé, Coldplay, and why we can’t let exotica become banal
Growing up in America in the 1980s through the noughties made most of my generation pretty hard to offend.
15 February 2016
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