At a glance: Egypt's arts and culture in October 2016

Ahram Online , Monday 31 Oct 2016

Ahram Online brings you Egyptian and regional culture through interviews, features, news and reviews. Revisit May 2016 with the articles linked below

At a glance

FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS

Cairo Now lights up Dubai Design Week as Iconic City

Countdown to the ninth edition of Egypt's Panorama of the European Film

Through the lens: Egypt's photography takes a new pitch

INTERVIEW: Palestinian musician Reem Kelani on her latest project, ‘Live at the Tabernacle’

The Passion of Carl Dreyer: Paris celebrates cinema’s ‘forgotten’ master

In Photos: Cairo Jazz Festival opens, lights up downtown

In Photos: Star of the Orient, a musical fairytale celebrating Egypt's Umm Kalthoum

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Cairo Now: City Incomplete! display at Dubai Design Week in Dubai Design District (Photo: Soha Elsirgany)

Radames of Orleans: Egypt's tenor Georges Wanis talks about Aida, international career, passions

Artists bring colour and hope to Egypt's El-Borollos as part of a two week symposium

INTERVIEW: Torange Yeghiazaria, Iranian-American theatre maker as Middle East's voice in the US

Egypt's classical music world launched new season 2016/2017

INTERVIEW: Lebanon's Tania Saleh on Beirut, love and art as experimentation

Multimedia exhibition at Cairo's Townhouse finds privacy, history and fiction in a Zoo

El-Borollos
El-Borollos Symposium for Drawing on the Walls and Boats is organised by the Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Mohsen Foundation for Culture, Arts and Development. This year's edition took place between 1 and 13 October. (Photo: Bassam Al-Zoghby)

EGYPT NEWS

The 38th Cairo International Film Festival to screen over two hundred films

'In the Last Days of the City' excluded due to entry violations: Cairo Film Festival

Cairo Film Festival revokes selection of In the Last Days of the City, baffling producers

Strong presence of Egyptian cinema at upcoming Carthage Film Festival

Egypt's Fine Arts Sector commemorates 43rd death anniversary of literary icon Taha Hussein

Indian embassy to celebrate Gandhi's birth in Cairo and Port Said

Ahram's Osama Abdel-Fattah selected to jury at Carthage Film Festival

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Mahatma Gandhi with two of his disciples. (AP)

Cairo Int'l Film Festival to screen eight Oscar hopefuls including Egypt's Clash

9th Panorama of the European Film to launche with a music night at Zigzag

Ahram Online’s culture editor wins 2016 CNN African Journalist Award in Culture

Egyptian artist Doa Aly shortlisted for prestigious Abraaj prize

Work from 7 Egyptian artists to be displayed at Art Paris Art Fair

Egypt's 'Wintry Spring' wins best short film award at Armenia festival

Saudi's Barakah Meets Barakah to compete at 38th Cairo Film Festival

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Doa Aly, House of Rumour, 2016, four-channel audio-video installation, 19 min 17 sec. (Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Gypsum Gallery)

More Cairo youth centres join Cinema Club project

'Florence Foster Jenkins' to make MENA premiere at 38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival

Controversy over Israeli ambassador's attendance of Layla Min Alf Layla

Egyptian state TV screens 1998 film on 1973 war for first time

Egypt’s 'Dry Hot Summers' scoops best short award at Malmo Arab Film Festival

Egypt's Menna Shalabi wins best actress award at Malmo Arab Film Festival

Egypt's 20th National Cinema Festival announces honourees

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Scene from previously banned Haet El-Botolat (Wall of Heroism), to be released on Egyptian television (Photo: Courtesy of CIFF)

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS

All eyes on Cairo’s designers at upcoming Dubai Design Week

Iraqi artist warns of 'scenario of destruction' in retrospective exhibit

Palestinian film 3000 Nights scoops two new awards at Bastia festival

Shakespeare Unauthorised: The bard's earliest published plays get rare public exhibition

Turkish child marriage film shines light on hidden abuses

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Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi poses for a picture at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in the Qatari capital Doha, on October 19, 2016. (Photo: AFP)

Reactions to Dylan's Nobel Prize win, from Billy Bragg to Stephen King

Syrian refugee paintings snapped up in Greek auction

Arab Stars of Tomorrow and virtual reality among new additions at 13th Dubai film festival

Leading Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda dies at 90

Palestine's '3000 Nights' scoops best feature, audience awards at Malmö Arab Film Festival

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(Photo: still from 3000 Nights)

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