visual culture

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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

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

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

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

‘Take it’ back please, Ramy Essam

Andeel | On Friday a song was briefly released on YouTube by Egyptian musician Ramy Essam. The song, Ashan Takhdoh

8 February 2015

A quick look back at the revolution’s internet sensations

Andeel | Way too much has been said and written about the social media use of the January 25 generation. Hysterical

27 January 2015

Toward an art that hides nothing behind

Adham Selim | Ganzeer’s metaphor imagines the world as a spectacle, something that you can choose either to gaze

3 August 2014

Pop, patriarchy and fake nostalgia

Andeel and Maha ElNabawi | In seeking to make hits, female singers started making songs speaking in the language an insecure man

4 July 2014

The guy behind Contemporary Art

Mai Elwakil | Type “contemporary art is” in a Google search, and the top three suggestions one gets are: “bullshit,”

8 October 2013

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Opinion

Maha ElNabawi

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