Abdelaal declines discussion on Rawda mosque attack in parliament
Cabinet allocates EGP 200,000 for each victim’s family
Lawyer to face urgent trial over incitement to rape women
Women rights defenders filed a report against Al-Wahsh, who said women wearing “obscene” clothes deserve violence
2,000 industrial licenses issued since announcing bylaws
Minister of Trade and Industry Tarek Kabil said that his ministry, represented by the Industrial Development Authority (IDA), granted more than 2,000 industrial licenses during the three months that followed…
Egypt, Turkey put aside differences to boost business relations
Plans to establish a new industrial zone in Egypt worth EGP 3bn
Gold rises on surge on world exchanges
Local market witnesses state of recession in buy, sell movement
Government sets max price energy recycling at 135 piasters
New prices officially approved within days, says Fahmy
2nd Children Film Festival explores kids’ hidden talents
The event lasted 2 hours, 10 short films screened including Egypt’s first animation, produced in 1937
Fragments of Broken Glass
In Elia Suleiman’s first feature film, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), he depicts Palestinians through the theatre of everyday life. He does so by steering the film via fragmented and…
The Hurt Locker: how to use film to create pro-war propaganda?
Somewhere in Iraq, a soldier steps forward to disable a bomb, some tension rises and then boom, the bomb explodes. After his death, the main protagonist of the film Sergeant…
‘Western’: a feminine critique of the male ego
Opening the sidebar program of the Cannes Film Festival, “Un Certain Regard”, Valeska Grisebach’s film “Western” investigates ideas of ownership, xenophobia, and masculinity, in a way that reflects some modern…