Journey to test resilience and faith
When Ghada el-Saeed decides to go on the Pilgrimage to Mecca and forget about her past, she finds herself in ...
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New day, new world, and feeling good
As the saying goes: When life gives you lemon, make lemonade. That’s exactly what Hirayama, a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, does. ...
Me Tarzan, you John — Woman of the Apes
The Tarzan character is quite fascinating not only for children, but also for adults, which is why it has been ...
How Hollywood sees Arabs
In the final minutes of James Cameron’s movie Titanic while the whole ship is sinking, we see an Arab family ...
Comedy from a lock-in
A quarrel between a husband and wife pushes them to think of divorce. So, the husband’s parents and the wife’s ...
Where there is not a pun, but there is comedy
Writing comedy has never been easy. A fine line usually exists between being funny and being silly. This is why ...
Revolutions on small and silver screens
Ten years have passed since the massive protests across Egypt erupted to put an end to the Muslim Brotherhood’s one-year ...
Foreign films à l’Egyptienne
If a film was a huge success for Hollywood, so the Egyptian version should be a blockbuster, albeit with a ...
Cannes Film Festival readies a blockbuster edition, with Indy, ‘Flower Moon,’ Depp and more
The Cannes Film Festival, which will kick off on Tuesday, is such a colossal extravaganza that taking measure of its ...
A classical gem about lost identity
When Nadia Borhan Sadek woke up, she never thought that she would find herself in another house with another identity. ...
The Egyptian Gazette is the oldest English-language daily newspaper in the Middle East.
It was first published on January 26, 1880 and it is part of El Tahrir Printing and Publishing House.