At a glance: Egypt's arts and culture in November 2016
Ahram Online brings you Egyptian and regional culture through interviews, features, news and reviews. Revisit November 2016 with the articles linked below
Features, reviews, interviews:
Ordinary People: One-woman play explores memory and loss, death and disappearance
The world of ink: Egyptian artists join Inktober international challenge
Remembering Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, Egypt's cinema icon
Ballet Carmen: Antonio Gades company brings Spanish reverie to Egypt
9th Panorama of the European Film through features reviews, interviews
Filmmaker Gertten on 'Becoming Zlatan' and the cold football world of Ibrahimovic
Director Mortiz Siebart on film Those Who Jump, African migrants, European fences
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ‘Uzak’: Can one make it through life alone?
'Rauf': A film on the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the colour pink
Those who make a city: On the 9th Panorama of the European Film’s Urban Lens and Berlin
Panoranimation: Animated shorts from Italy’s oldest cinema school screened in Egypt
Ode to beauty: Reset - A page from Paris Opera Ballet's history
Lack of peace in ‘God's garden’ captured in The Land of the Enlightened
Dancing as Palestine's resistance: 'Rough Stage' at Egypt's European Panorama
A Syrian Love Story: On how a revolution exposes the fragility of family
'Fire at Sea': A poignant testimony to Lampedusa, migrants and the sea
'The Lives of Others': Finding humanity in von Donnersmarck’s grey Eastern Berlin
The Ardennes - A Biblical showdown to a Belgian Christmas
Dust Cloth - A feminist take on Istanbul’s different worlds
Marianne Khoury on 9th Panorama of European Film: Fresh, courageous, reflective
Zainab Magdy performing Ordinary People in Jesuit theatre. (Photo taken by: George Beshara)
More from 9th Panorama of the European Film
First Impression: After Love or 'The Economy of a Breakup'
First Impression: The Culpable: ethics of a catholic priest
First Impression: Reset: A Story of Creation conceals truth within ballet beauty
First Impression: Song of the Sea explores grief with enchanting animation of Irish folk
First Impression: 'The Wait,' on longing for those lost
First Impression: 'Freak Orlando', a surrealist history of the world
First Impression: 'Dust Cloth': Chasing dreams in Modern Turkey
PROGRAMME: Egypt's 9th Panorama of the European Film
Panorama of the European Film: Ahram Online recommends: 2-6 November
Panorama of the European Film: Ahram Online recommends: 7-9 November
(Photo: still from A Syrian Love Story)
News Egypt: Film
In the Last Days of the City scoops three awards at two different film festivals
Spanish actress Maribel Verdú guest of honour at first Aswan Women’s Film Festival
Intl Science Film Festival comes to young viewers in Alexandria, adds other Egyptian cities
Egyptian film Clash wins Golden Pram at Croatian festival
Egypt's Clash scoops four awards at Carthage Film Festival
15 films to watch by late Egyptian actor Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz
Iconic Egyptian actor Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz dies at age 70
Trailer of Egyptian film The Other Land exceeds one million views on YouTube in first week
Hepta wins Audience Award at Arabian Sights Film Festival
Actor Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (Photo: Al-Ahram)
38th Cairo International Film Festival:
Moroccan drama 'Mimosas' scoops Golden Pyramid, Best Actor awards at Cairo Int'l Film Festival
All winners at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival
Dutch-Algerian Karim Traidia comes to Egypt with his film 'Chronicles of my Village'
Saudi filmmaker Sabbagh discusses his award-winning ‘Barakah Meets Barakah’ in Cairo
Egypt's Hala Khalil and Jordan's Yahya Alabdallah win top prizes at 4th Cairo Film Connection
All you need to know about the 38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival
38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival opens with awards, special dedications
38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival dedicated to late Egyptian actor Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz
Countdown to the 38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival
In the Last Days of the City continues to fight for its place in Cairo Int'l Film Festival
In The Last Days of the City (Photo: courtesy of Berlinale)
Dubai International Film Festival
Middle East premiere of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' to close Dubai Int’l Film Festival
'Mawlana' film to be featured in gala screening at Dubai Int'l Film Festival
Dubai Int'l Film Festival to embrace virtual reality technology for first time
Five Egyptian films in final line-up of Dubai Int'l Film Festival's Muhr Feature section
8 Egyptian films to have world premieres at 13th Dubai Int'l Film Festival
Dubai Intl Film Festival presents Egypt's Clash for Golden Globe consideration
A participant wearing a virtual reality headset HTC VIVE plays a game at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2016 in Beijing, China, Apr 28, 2016. (Photo: Reuters)
News regional and international: Film
Palestinian film 3000 Nights receives award at Mauret Film Festival in France
Palestinian film 3,000 Nights to be released at UAE cinemas
13th Beirut Arab Short Film Festival to screen Egyptian shorts, honors filmmakers
Iranian Keywan Karimi starts sentence: one year in jail, 223 lashes for film on graffiti
Oscar winning Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi on war, peace and writing from the heart
Oscar-winning Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem to star in Iranian director Farhadi's new film
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi is pictured in Tehran while working on the movie "Drum" early in 2016 (Photo: AFP)
Other news:
Egyptian play Paranoia participates in 23rd Jordan Theatre Festival
Cairo's Metropol theatre reopens after renovations
Earliest piece of found art: South African cave pebble outshines treasures at British Museum
Coldplay to hold New Year concert in Abu Dhabi
President Putin gives Russian citizenship to American film star Steven Seagal
'I am tired' campaign: South Sudan artists protest civil war with pop-up street performances, murals
Google Doodle commemorates late iconic Lebanese singer Wadih El Safi
Odissi, Bharatnatyam and beyond: India's classical dance is back en vogue
Egypt’s ASCII initiative at the first Alternative Art School Fair in New York
Berlin's wild charms make it first choice for Syrian artists
Louvre could house treasures from Iraq, Syria: Hollande
New film displays Germans in best and worst light in refugee crisis
Morocco's King to bear legal fees of singer Saad Lamjarred in 'aggravated rape' case
Zaha Hadid among six awarded Aga Khan architecture prize
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