“A Feminine Edition”: Women’s Voices Prevail At 2017 Cairo Contemporary Theatre Festival
Ten out of 20 plays at this year’s Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental...
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 17th Oct 2017 | Egypt, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Gender
Ten out of 20 plays at this year’s Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental...
Read MorePosted by Soha Elsirgany | 27th Sep 2017 | Egypt, Festivals, Theatre and Politics
Organized by Cairo’s D-CAF festival, Arab Arts Focus ran for a month, garnering positive...
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 24th Sep 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Egypt, Festivals
The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre (CIFCET) has just...
Read MorePosted by Andrea Pelegri Kristić | 2nd Sep 2017 | Directing, Egypt, France
Adel Hakim was a French-Egyptian actor, playwright, pedagogue, and director. He was well-known for...
Read MoreWith this year’s Egypt National Theatre Festival drawing to a close, a closer look at the...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 6th Jul 2017 | Design, Egypt
The International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT) has...
Read MorePosted by Sondos Shabayek | 19th Jun 2017 | Egypt, Theatre and Gender
I. So when a man pinches my ass or grabs my boob or another tries to rub his dick against my thigh...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 10th Jun 2017 | Egypt
The Artistic Theatre House has announced that Ahmed Taha, director of the new DMC Masrah (DMC...
Read MorePosted by Göksu Kunak | 25th Apr 2017 | Africa, Egypt, LGBTQ Theatre
The term ‘freak’ thus refers not only to bodies, but also to denormalizing social...
Read MorePosted by Soha Elsirgany | 20th Apr 2017 | Egypt, Theatre and Gender, Theatre for Young Audiences
The play Untangled (Hal El-Dafayer) was staged at Cairo’s Hosapeer Theatre last week, where...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 16th Apr 2017 | Egypt
The highly anticipated Arabic stage adaptation of Elif Shafak’s bestselling novel The Forty Rules...
Read MorePosted by Cleo Jay | 13th Mar 2017 | Egypt, Morocco, Theatre and Politics, Tunisia
In the two years since the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring,’ North African theatre...
Read MorePosted by Ati Metwaly | 21st Jan 2017 | Egypt, News
On January 6th, the Egyptian culture scene lost one its highest pillars, Nehad Selaiha, a woman...
Read MorePosted by Madison Parrotta | 12th Jan 2017 | Egypt, News, Theatre and Gender
The monodrama Sah El-Nom, directed and performed by Egyptian artist Doaa Hamza, was performed at...
Read MorePosted by Hadeer El-Mahdawy - AhramOnline | 3rd Dec 2016 | Egypt, Review, Theatre and Gender
The play was written, directed, and performed by Egyptian stage actress Zainab Magdy was performed...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 1st Dec 2016 | Egypt, Review, Theatre and Gender
The performance is a result of collaboration between BuSSy Project and Nazra for Feminist Studies....
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 18th Nov 2016 | Egypt, Festivals, News
The 23rd Jordan Theatre Festival opens today in Amman, featuring 20 plays from nine Arab...
Read MorePosted by Nora Amin | 13th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Applied Theatre, Egypt, Essay
It was September 2012 that I had decided to stage An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen. A play...
Read MorePosted by Nesma Youssef Idris | 5th Oct 2016 | Egypt, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Gender
The 23rd Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre opened Tuesday,...
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