Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

Nowhere “ explores his turbulent history against a backdrop of seismic world events” Related The West's Favourite Afghan

Iranian rock and heavy metal

One Man Protest at Google, London

  Here is what you can do Related: The road to neoliberal autocracy

“Since nearly all independent Arab films rely on European capital for finance, productions are usually shaped by what the west expects the Arab world to be, and are ultimately evaluated by western critics with little to no knowledge of the region.” How the ‘Arab Spring’ changed cinema

 Permission to narrate Palestinian feminism

  YouTube, Zoom and Facebook censor Leila Khaled Meanwhile, Israeli Right raises $400K for Israeli convicted of burning a Palestinian family

The cartoons the Guardian refused to publish

Egyptian drama production (a report in Arabic) How the military dictatorship is destroying the margin of variety and freedom that existed for decades.  One company, with links to the state, now has a monopoly on the production of drama and owns/controls most of the network channels. There has been a significant drop in production, actors and actresses have withrawn from the art's scene, and 1 million people working in the industry have been/will be affected in one way or another . هل بات الإنتاج الدرامي في مصر تحت سيطرة الدولة؟ Erotic scenes and wearing revealing dresses used to be common in  Egyptian movies. New rules/codes after 2013 coup have been put in place. Example:  Rania Youssef threatened with prison sentence for wearing a revealing dress

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