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Will Nefertiti ever come home?

‘I want to go home!’ Nefertiti’s bust in Berlin reignites Egypt’s restitution push—alongside the Rosetta Stone and Dendera Zodiac—as legal and political hurdles loom.

Tanja Kunesch_ 28-12-2025

Will Nefertiti ever come home?

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Dancers, mothers, and those escaping the Zuzu complex

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Three generations of Egypt’s iconic dancers—Taheyya, Fifi, and Dina—redefine womanhood, motherhood, and art, transforming stigma into strength across time.

Fayrouz Karawya_ 28-10-2025

Dancers, mothers, and those escaping the Zuzu complex

Khaled El-Enany’s UNESCO win and contested legacy

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Egypt’s Khaled El-Enany wins UNESCO vote, and is poised to lead the organization amid hopes for reform and debates over the legacy of his time in government.

Abdel Halim Hefaina_ 16-10-2025

Khaled El-Enany’s UNESCO win and contested legacy

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'