As the third anniversary of the death of a legend approaches, Ahram Online looks back at the career of Youssef Chahine, the Arab world's most celebrated film director whose films will be screening this weekend in London
On 27 July 2008, Egypt and (...)
On 5 and 6 March, concerned citizens tuned in to whatever media outlets they could get their hands on, from terrestrial TV stations to Twitter, to follow up on reports of brave activists storming state security offices to salvage incriminating files (...)
Producer, director and film festival organiser Marianne Khoury is the niece of world renowned Egyptian film director, the late Youssef Chahine. She met with Ahram Online to discuss the blind-siding momentous event, the Egyptian youth's abrupt (...)
On Sunday evening semi-famous actors, out-of-work directors, bloated critics, and an entire gaggle of parasitic journalists, as well as various other curious moviegoers and industry hangers-on, descended upon Maadi's Family Land cinema to witness (...)
Eight years after the release of the vehicle that made him a household name--which was then followed by a handful of sequels amounting to little more than jacked-up variations on the same character--actor Mohamed Saad strains to reinvigorate his (...)
A reanimated Rawabet Theater, Downtown, continued its Third Annual Independent Theater Festival program last week after shutting down for almost a month in order to attend to a few overdue technical repairs. The festival resumes with Talata theatre (...)
The small screen welcomed a new arrival this month in the form of director Hadi el-Bagoury's new TV series 'Ard Khas (Special Offer). The show follows aspiring actors attempting to secure a foothold in the often treacherous entertainment industry, (...)
Al-Ahram's lead story states that Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will present a proposal to parliament today calling for the abolition of the Emergency Law and restricting it over the next two years to combating terrorism and drug trafficking. A "new (...)
All of the major newspapers lead with reports on yesterday's demonstration in downtown Cairo calling for amendments to Articles 76, 77 and 88 of the Constitution and protesting the continuation of Emergency Law.
Al-Dostour, which runs with the (...)
The 16th annual National Film Festival commenced on 23 April at the Cairo Opera Opera House, showcasing the past year's best film releases. Also part of the festival's program are documentaries and short films, mostly produced by the National Cinema (...)
Both state-run and independent papers lead with news of the retrial of construction tycoon and former MP Hisham Talaat Mostafa, who stands accused of ordering his bodyguard Mohsen el-Sokkari to murder his girlfriend Suzanne Tamim on 27 July (...)
Tahani Rached's latest film Giran (Neighbors) is a piercing dissection of the community of Garden City and an examination of how the neighborhood's transformation over the years has come to reflect the turning of political tides in Egypt's recent (...)
Director Tahani Rached returns to the screen in top form with Giran (Neighbors), a feature-length documentary about the neighborhood of Garden City. Rached worked as a full-time filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada from 1981 to 2004, (...)
State-owned papers focus on the Egypt-Palestine summit in Sharm el-Sheikh today, at which President Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen discussed Palestinian unity and Israeli settlements. Al-Ahram runs with the headline: "Mubarak (...)
The third annual Independent Theater Season kicked off last Thursday at Downtown's Rawabet Theater with el-Ghagar troupe's play Sho'oub Mosta'mala (Used Nations), a political satire examining a concocted contrast between Egyptian poverty and US (...)
The proceedings of Sunday's meeting of the leadership of the National Democratic Party (NDP) dominate the newspapers today. The meeting--the first since President Mubarak returned to Egypt after surgery in Germany last month--was chaired by NDP (...)
Under the auspices of El-Hanager Arts Center and the Independent Youth Artists Association (IYAA), the Third Annual Independent Theater Season is set to begin on 18 April. Celebrating 20 years of independent theater in Egypt, it will run through the (...)
Downtown's Rawabet Theater received a refreshing, albeit short-lived, dose of creativity recently with Laila Soliman's adaptation of Frank Wedekind's 1891 controversial masterwork Spring Awakening. Examining the conflicted emotions of a group of (...)
Al-Ahram, Al-Gomhurriya and Rose el-Youssef all lead with news on the amendments to the social insurance law, highlighting new benefits for pensioners. Al-Ahram reports on ministerial meeting held yesterday, chaired by Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. (...)
If you've noticed that many people around you have recently become much more proactive, if not ill-humored, don't be fooled. This is not the dawning of some renewed collective work ethic. What you're witnessing is withdrawal.
For the past two months (...)
As the photojournalists' division of the Egyptian Press Syndicate commences its second term following elections held last Saturday, 27 March--a term that will witness politically-sensitive presidential, parliamentary and Shura council elections--its (...)
Al-Ahram runs with the headline, "Mubarak: Peace is the way for good relations between the Palestinians and the Israelis." Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif, speaking on behalf of President Mubarak at the Arab League summit in Sirte, Libya, declared that (...)
In a relatively low-key affair, the photojournalists' division at the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate conducted its second-term elections on Saturday. Hossam Diab, photo editor for independent daily Al-Masry Al-Youm and the state-run Al-Ahram (...)
From the perennial smog that makes Cairo give any city in China, India or Mexico a run for its money as the world's most polluted, to the infamous seasonal "black cloud" that mercilessly impairs the health of the victims it hovers above annually, (...)
Downtown's Cinema Culture Center celebrated International Woman's Day this month by screening five films by female filmmakers from the Iranian Makhmalbaf family. While filmmaking in Iran remains politically sensitive, the country's women filmmakers (...)