Analysis
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The Man Behind the Lens: Youssef Chahine’s Hidden Actor Within
How an unfulfilled acting ambition shaped one of Arab cinema’s most controlling and visionary directors By Yehia Khalifa In his…
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Arab Umm Kulthum vs Egyptian Abdel Wahab: Two Visions of Cultural Identity on Screen
How Egypt’s two greatest musical stars embodied opposing visions of modernity through their 1930s and 1940s films, one embracing Arab…
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The Translation Problem That’s Distorting Ancient Egyptian History
An architect turned Egyptologist argues for translating hieroglyphic texts directly into Arabic, bypassing European intermediaries. Yusef Tayyiba’s path to studying…
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British Museum Loans Egyptian Artifacts to India, Sparking Debate Over the Rosetta Stone
The British Museum has sent 80 Egyptian and Greek artefacts to India for a three-year loan—but when photos showed the…
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Where Did the Egyptians Come From? A Reading of Geography, Genome, and Identity
The question of origin is a timeless one, but for Egyptians, the query “Where did we come from?” sparks a…
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“Light of Darkness”: The Story That Launched Youssef Idris’s Literary Career
Youssef Idris lived a life filled with noise and commotion, filling the world and occupying people for decades with his…
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Joyce Mansour… The Tuberose Baby Girl
(1) I love surrealist paintings, and I adore all kinds of art, especially those that break away from the ordinary…
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Hossam Fakhr’s The Other Stories: Heritage and Postmodernism in the Story Factory
I became familiar with the work of writer, novelist, and translator Hossam Fakhr when I first read “Amina’s Stories,” followed…
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The Sons of Taha Hussein
One day, a group of young writers proclaimed, “We are a generation without teachers,” expressing their rebellion and departure from…
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Egyptian film at the Oscars… The buzz continues!
Those who follow cinema news know that the film “Happy Birthday” by director Sarah Gohar premiered at the Tribeca Film…
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