HaRaKa Platform is an arts production company and a creative collective that started its first productions in Cairo in the season of 2003–2004. While they weren’t formalised under the name ‘HaRaKa Platform’ until 2006, the company created award-winning and cutting-edge performances that premiered at places as diverse as Cairo Opera House and Townhouse Gallery (Egypt), […]
Some books arrive quietly but leave a lasting resonance. Mahmoud Khattab’s The Dog Sat Where We Parted is such a work, an unflinching yet poetic meditation on solitude, masculinity, and the inner landscape of military service in Egypt, where every able-bodied male with brothers is obliged to serve in the country’s military apparatus. Self-published outside […]
From a modest studio in Cairo, Mariem Akmal continues to develop a quiet but distinct visual language, one shaped as much by sound as by pigment. Now 24, the Egyptian artist recently completed her studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, where she majored in mural painting and explored mosaic and stained glass. […]
