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Bassam Mortada
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Bassam Mortada
Why was the presumed censorship of The Nile Hilton Incident met with silence from Egypt’s filmmakers?
Why haven't Egyptian filmmakers responded to the cancellation of The Nile Hilton Incident screenings?
features
Avant-titre
2 min read
Video | Avant-Titre: “Lift like a girl”… yet not at the Olympics
Bassam Mortada
| Bassam Mortada engages with Egypt's history of Olympic weightlifting in a new Avant-Titre episode
cinema
16 min read
Osama Fawzi: A Thousand and One Nights in Helwan
Bassam Mortada
| Bassam Mortada’s recollection of his early initiation into the unique world of Osama Fawzi’s films
Cairo Cinema Days
16 min read
I Have a Picture: Between romanticized art and an authoritarian industry
Ahmed Refaat and Bassam Mortada
| Two takes on Mohamed Zedan’s debut documentary “I Have a Picture”
Cairo International Film Festival
16 min read
Where does the Cairo International Film Festival stand on Egypt’s cinematic map?
Bassam Mortada, Hakim Abdel Naim and Muhammad El-Hajj
| Three film buffs in conversation
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