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Azlarabe Alaoui Builds Academic Bridges to Enrich Moroccan Film
The filmmaker Azlarabe Alaoui sees a partnership of academic study and practical experience as key to revitalizing Moroccan film culture.
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‘Between Women Filmmakers’: International Event Reaches Out to Arabs
The Between Women Filmmakers Caravan presents films made by women around the globe. It includes projects tailored to the Arab…
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Iraqi Artist Afifa Aleiby Fulfills a Life-Long Dream to Exhibit in Cairo
Born in Iraq, the artist Afifa Aleiby trained in Baghdad, Moscow and Italy. Bringing her art to Cairo, she says,…
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Cairo Jazz Festival Builds Bridges Across Nations and Generations
This year’s running of the international Cairo Jazz Festival showcased Egyptian artists alongside Palestinian, Sudanese and Western bands. It paid…
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Cairo Gets Its First Contemporary Art Salon
Egypt opened a four-week Contemporary Art Salon in Cairo this month. For one of the artists involved, the idea is…
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Sabah Fakhri, Syrian Tenor and Classical Arab Music Icon, Dies
Son of a Qur’an reciter, religious influences played an important part in making him one of the greatest interpreters of…
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Ibrahim El-Bridy’s Art Keeps the Joy of ‘The Grand Night’ Alive
In his patchwork-on-canvas works, the artist Ibrahim El-Bridy recreates the characters of Egypt’s much-loved puppet operetta “The Grand Night.”
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A Prestigious Fine Arts College in Sudan Gets Help from Its Alumni
Graduates of Sudan’s historic College of Fine and Applied Arts are helping the school build new courses and attract much-needed…
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‘African Literatures’: A Conference Focuses on a Continent’s Plural Ways of Writing
“There is no single African literature,” says the Egyptian novelist Ahmad Abdulatif, who participated in a recent conference in Spain.
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Egyptian Universities Help Revive Traditional Al-Aragoz Puppetry
Fewer than 10 puppet masters were still at work before Unesco put the folk art on its endangered Cultural Heritage…
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