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Escaping the minefield surrounding the Druze on a ‘Kite’

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A bold Lebanese film explores identity, love, and sectarian rifts through the story of a Druze girl on the border—trapped by history, politics, and landmines.

Essam Zakaria_ 5-8-2025

Escaping the minefield surrounding the Druze on a ‘Kite’

Ziad Rahbani’s final act: A funeral in his own voice

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Ziad Rahbani’s funeral became a public chorus of defiance, merging art, grief, and politics as Lebanon gathered to bid farewell to its most unclassifiable icon.

Elie Ferzlie_ 30-7-2025

Ziad Rahbani’s final act: A funeral in his own voice

Cacophony in Cairo: Besieged by sound, learning to negotiate

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From microbus horns to midnight cries, Cairo’s unrelenting noise reveals a deeper disorder, where chaos reigns and silence is something to bargain for.

Ezzat Elkamhawi_ 26-7-2025

Cacophony in Cairo: Besieged by sound, learning to negotiate

Therapy dramas as drama therapy

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Egyptian drama shifts from stereotypical therapists to nuanced portrayals, normalizing mental health and redefining therapy as a shared, human path to healing.

Ghadeer Mahajna_ 27-6-2025

Therapy dramas as drama therapy

Jacques Hassoun: Jew of the Nile

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An intimate journey through memory, exile, and identity, tracing the fractured yet enduring soul of Egypt’s Jewish minority through the life of Jacques Hassoun.

Alaa Khaled_ 10-6-2025

Jacques Hassoun: Jew of the Nile

Falling in love with AI!

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Robots discover they are not human, while humans fall in love with them. A spate of films over the last few years pose disturbing questions for man, woman, and machine alike.

Essam Zakaria_ 9-6-2025

Falling in love with AI!

Giants or genius? The secret behind the pyramids

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No giants, no magic—just ingenuity, ramps, and relentless labor. Experts cut through the myths to reveal how ancient Egyptians really built the pyramids.

Abdel Halim Hefaina_ 7-6-2025

Giants or genius? The secret behind the pyramids

Inter-generational defeat

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After each defeat, the young generation blames the previous one, only to become the blamed after the next defeat arrives.

Alaa Khaled_ 17-5-2025

Inter-generational defeat

To Sonallah Ibrahim with love

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Sonallah Ibrahim, a reclusive Egyptian genius whose politically charged novels defied literary norms and state control. A personal tribute to his enduring vision.

Ezzat Elkamhawi_ 14-5-2025

To Sonallah Ibrahim with love

From hashtags to hardcovers

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As influencers crowd bookstore shelves, some see it as a hollowing out of literary culture while others call it a new gateway. If the road back to books runs through fame, so be it

Toqa Abdel-Mageed_ 10-5-2025

From hashtags to hardcovers

Kafka’s growing presence

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To me, this is both astonishing and deeply gratifying. A hundred years after his death, Kafka feels more "contemporary" than ever.

Essam Zakaria_ 3-5-2025

Kafka’s growing presence

80 Grand: No place for supermen in a women's world

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In 80 Grand, life unfolds without heroes or noise—only women’s work, sacrifice, and quiet strength, finally taking their rightful place at the center of the story.

Ayah Tantawy_ 3-5-2025

80 Grand: No place for supermen in a women's world

Leila Khaled: Plane hijacker and the essence of Palestinian rage

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Palestine is allowed to exist only as a dream from the past. This film reveals the clash between lived resistance and a Western narrative that questions its very legitimacy.

Basel Ramsis_ 29-4-2025

Leila Khaled: Plane hijacker and the essence of Palestinian rage

Ashraf Omar: A glimpse into the life of an 'ordinary guy'

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I wondered how I'd profile an ordinary guy whom I had followed his political cartoons, I thought his life wouldn't offer much for his fellow journalists to paint a portrait for him

Azza Moghazy_ 13-4-2025

Ashraf Omar: A glimpse into the life of an 'ordinary guy'