Egypt and anime come together in one woman’s style.
Tag: egypt
Posted inArts & Culture
Egyptian death-mask portraits bring their subjects back to life after 2,000 years
At the Block Museum, mummies look as alive as you or I.
Posted inBlogs
In Egypt, journalists know exactly where they stand with the powers that be
Compared with places like Egypt, how honorable is the American free press?
Posted inArts & Culture
The Encyclopedia Show turns a final page
The live-lit staple the Encyclopedia Show ends its five-year run.
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The International Voices Project: Next season’s productions today?
The International Voices Project offers free staged readings of cutting-edge plays from around the world.
Posted inFilm
Cairo convulses in the new documentary The Square
The Square chronicles the Egyptian Revolution from Mubarak to Morsi.
Posted inArts & Culture
Too much chaos makes The Sovereign Statement go wrong
The Neo-Futurists’ new The Sovereign Statement show starts out well, then confuses itself.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship
On Mohamed Morsi, Al Jazeera, and censorship.
Posted inBlogs
Reader’s Agenda Wed 6/5: Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 13, Robert Ritner, and Blood Ceremony
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, June 5
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The presidency: take this job and love it
If Obama’s so smart, why does he want four more years?
Posted inFilm
The not-so-dark continent
The African Diaspora International Film Festival screens 6/15-6/21 at Facets
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The Middle East Uprisings Release Their First Mix Tape
“Khalas Mixtape Volume One” includes the influential “President, Your People Are Dying” from Tunisia’s El General and similarly politicized rap from Egypt, Libya, and Algeria.
Posted inBlogs
Veiled Voices
Brigid Maher’s documentary “Veiled Voices,” premiering 9/13 on Link TV, follows three women leaders in the Middle East.
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“My only weapon…is that I won’t leave this place”
Imprisoned by Egyptian security forces last February for protesting the Israeli siege on Gaza, student activist Philip Rizk explores nonviolent resistance in his documentary “This Palestinian Life,” screening tonight at Wellington United Church of Christ.