This award-winning documentary, aired internationally in 2014, tracks several musicians from Egypt's underground heavy metal scene, including the sons of opposition politician Ayman Nour and the members of the country's first female metal band.…

This crime drama film is set during the height of clashes between security forces and protesters. A forensic doctor, suffering from alcoholism, examines a body at the morgue and is struck by something unusual. His report provokes much anger and he…

Every time 22-year-old Heba Afify heads out to cover the historical events shaping her country's future, her mother is compelled to remind her, "I know you are a journalist, but you're still a girl!"

This film explores the eery reality of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt's Sinai Peninsual. Once a popular holiday destination, Sharm El Sheikh is now desolate, emptied of tourists as a result of terror attacks and years of political turmoil, with crippling…

This documentary tells the story of the rise of Bassem Youssef from heart surgeon to the host of the Arab world's most popular TV show, the satirical talk show, 'El Bernameg', and his subsequent fall from grace, following the military coup of 2013.

“This is Chaos” (Hiyya Fawda, in Arabic), is an Egyptian-French 2007 co-production and the last film by internationally-acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Shahin before he passed away in 2008. It made waves in Egypt when it was shown for its open…

An angel informs Adam and Eve that they would not have been forced to leave paradise if they had voted 'yes' in the referendum on the 2012 constitution. The satirical cartoon was published in the newspaper Masry El Youm in December 2012.

The cartoon refers to a national address given by former president Morsi, hours before the military deposed him, in which he declared that he would hold onto power even if it came at the price of his own life.

This cartoon criticises the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) (also termed Female Genital Cutting).

This cartoon was created in the wake of the referendum approving the 2012 Egyptian constitution. It criticises the new constitution for failing to grant women equal rights. The long beard, which is literally preventing the woman from speaking,…