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cinema • 12 min read
Dubai Film Festival celebrates the margins of Egyptian cinema
Hossam Helaly | The Dubai festival seems to be helping Egyptian cinema overcome its artistic slump
12 January 2017
Aida El Kashef • 10 min read
On creative ways to fund films, and women who killed their husbands
Rowan El Shimi | Egypt’s indie filmmakers come up with alternative methods of making, from crowdfunding to no-budget
20 October 2015
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