Ali Abdel Mohsen

The most noticeable thing about Assiut city’s Abu Bakr al-Sideeq Mosque isn’t the building itself, which stands almost camouflaged among…

Whether you want to dance the drunken night away, or wallow in solitary self-pity, Bahr Abu Greisha is your man.…

It’s not shaaby, and it’s not moulid music. It’s a mahragan, or a “festival,” and Sadat should know, considering he’s…

Two decades ago, the Nigerian film industry was non-existent; today, "Nollywood" produces more films a year than its American namesake…

After traveling the world when its writer could not, Nassim Soleimapour’s much-translated, critically-acclaimed “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” received its stage…

During a lull in Friday’s violence, protesters gathered across from a Moqattam mosque to buy refreshments from a kiosk through…

  Over the past 26 months, Egyptians have protested in public squares, outside state-run institutions and, more than once, at…

It was to be a mind-bending spectacle. The sun would rise, and then again, and again, so that three fiery…

In a moment of questionable parenting, when I was five my father gave me animated adaptations of “Animal Farm” (the…

A 12-car train carrying hundreds of Central Security Forces conscripts left Upper Egypt for Cairo on Monday afternoon. Before midnight,…