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The Observatory of Food Sovereignty and the Environment (OSAE) is organizing its second summer school from August 31 to September 06, 2020, in Jerba on the theme: “Climate Change and Food Dependence: Processes and Risks.

I have been convinced, since The Arab Revolution (written in English while teaching at Columbia in 2011), that the so-called “Ar..

Qu’il s’agisse d’affiches ou de clips vidéo, les campagnes de promotion de la ville de Beyrouth associent volontiers la capitale libanaise à sa vie nocturne intense, variée et changeante. Les fragments de nuit partagés montrent les rues animées des quartiers branchés où l’alcool, la fumée et la ..

This summer witnessed the graduation of the first class from the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center, founded by acclaimed dancer Karima Mansour. Despite facing a number of hurdles over the years, including the Culture Ministry withdrawing its support halfway through the program in favor of a series..

Although it takes the world’s economic crisis as its theme, "A (Micro) History of World Economics, Danced" is a performance about people, explains French director and choreographer Pascal Rambert. The performance is a collection ..

Cairo Contemporary Dance Center Student Performance

17 April 2013

Hal Badeel Arts Festival

Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

In 2012, Egyptian choreographer and dancer Karima Mansour be..

On the latest edition of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Cairo-based journalist, Ahmad Shokr comments on the serious unrest in the major Egyptian harbor city of Port Said over the past two weeks. The root cause is said ..

Written and directed by Cherien Dabis, May in the Summer -- which opened the 2013 U.S. Dramatic Competition of the Sundance Film Festival -- is a disarmingly humorous, sharply observed and deeply affecting story about a Palestinian-American writer, May, who returns to her childhood home i..

France Winddance Twine, A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.

Despite the central role they play in our lives, the intimate spaces of family life have unfortunately remained beyond the reach of most sociologic..

Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes. Directed by Jocelyn Saab. Egypt/Lebanon/France, 2005.

It might seem that a dance film about female circumcision can only devolve into a cliché-laden take on an over-exhausted (and over-analyzed) subject, but Dunia: Kiss Me Not on the Eyes man..

Some Fires Burn More than Others

[August 10^th, 2009] Bosra is on fire. Red lights shine through the night in the ancient Roman amphitheatre. The smoke pours onto the stage, where the famous pop singer, Ali al-Deek, and his orchestra have set the audience ..