Ten short films made by ten different directors about the first 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
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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…
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While tens of thousands of protestors gathered in cities across Egypt in January 2011, poor villagers in the country’s south followed the tense situation on their TV screens and in the daily newspapers. From the overthrow of Mubarak to the fall of…
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This award-winning novel, originally published in Arabic in 2013, is set in an unnamed Middle Eastern country, yet is clearly relevant to post-revolution Egypt and life under the regime of Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. A centralized authority known as the…
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This episode of the Baladna Bilmasry TV talk show became very famous for playing a part in the resignation of then prime minister Ahmed Shafiq. During this episode, the renown writer Alaa al-Asswany sharply criticised Shafiq, whilst TV broadcaster…
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People demonstrate in Hussein Square, in Islamic Cairo, calling for the police to return to the streets.
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The song's lyrics were composed by poet Amin Haddad and sung by Eskenderella Band in the aftermath of the Mohammed Mahmoud street protests in November 2011, which resulted in the killing of over 40 protestors. The video clip shows the band singing it…
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This image was painted on the walls of the Ittihadiyya Presidential Palace during the protests of November-December 2012, in opposition to Mohamed Morsi's constitutional declaration on 22 November 2012, granting himself excessive powers.
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The film was released in 2013 and was written and directed by Ahmad Abdalla, who also directed the 2011 film 'Microphone'. It tells the story of a prisoner who was set free in the very early days of the 2011 revolution. It was reported that a number…
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“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…
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