The early twentieth century in Egypt was a time of intellectual exploration. Among the many new doctrines, sciences, and philosophies that were setting Cairo ablaze, one of the most unusual was hypnotism. Experimental and, often, weird it existed on the […]
Film Screening: A House in Jerusalem Directed by Muayad Alayan | 2022 | Palestine, UK, Netherlands, Qatar | 104 min | In English and Arabic with Arabic subtitles ‘A story about grief and ghosts’ is how the Palestinian brothers Muayad […]
Film Screening: Beggars and Noblemen Directed by Asmaa El-Bakry | Adapted from the graphic novel by Albert Cossery | Produced by Misr International Films | Egypt /France | 1991 | 92 min | in Arabic with English subtitles In tribute […]
Was Egyptology Colonial? State, Labor, and Antiquities Management in Nineteenth-century Egypt Wendy Doyon Organizers : DAIK, Ifao & NVIC Langue : anglais. The 5th session of the seminar series 'Exploring Egypt: Histories and Historiographies', a joint initiative of the Ifao […]
In 1962 the Egyptian Ministry of Culture initiated an ambitious program that sponsored artists’ travels to Aswan, where the construction of the monumental Aswan High Dam was underway. Their resulting artworks were to join a constellation of state-supported cultural output […]
Drama | Ridha Behi | Tunisia | 2022 | 86 min | Arabic, Italian and French with English subtitles. The Island of Forgiveness follows Andrea Licari, a successful author and professor of Italian descent, as he returns to his birthplace […]
In recent years, the field of Egyptology has witnessed a surge in the use of 3D models and digital tools, particularly revolutionizing epigraphic work through enhanced accuracy and accessibility facilitated by digital tablet technology. This has sparked crucial conversations about […]
While the Early Dynastic cemetery at North Saqqara is arguably one of the most relevant archaeological sites in Egypt, various factors have limited our understanding of it. Aerial images show that the efforts of Quibell, Firth, and especially Emery uncovered […]
Film Screening: Under The Fig Trees Directed by Erige Sehiri | Tunisia/France/Germany/Qatar | 2022 | 92 min | Arabic with English subtitles Tunisia’s official entry for the 2023 Oscars. On a hot summer day, a crew of workers — men […]
Film Screening: Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous Fiction | Wissam Charaf | 2022 | France/Lebanon | 83min | Arabic with English subtitles Beirut, Lebanon, nowadays. Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, and Mehdia, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker, are living an impossible love. While […]
Fifty years have passed since Bruce Lee’s kung fu films gave rise to the global karate boom of the 1970s. Egypt was not an exception. Young Egyptian men who already had experience in martial arts switched to karate and shaped […]
Film Screening: Ashkal Feature | Youssef Chebbi | 2022 | Tunisia/France | 92min | Arabic and French with English subtitles The film takes place in the Gardens of Carthage, a district of Tunis initiated by the former Regime whose construction […]
Dr. Hosam Elzembely and Dr. Emad El-Din Aysha will join us to speak about their latest book, Arab and Muslim Science Fiction: Critical Essays (McFarland, 2022). The first book of its kind, Arab and Muslim Science Fiction is a compendium […]
Foragers Documentary/Fiction, Feature | Jumana Manna | 2022 | Palestine | 65 min | Arabic and Hebrew with English subtitles Foragers moves between documentary and fiction to depict the dramas between the Israeli Nature Protection Authority and Palestinian foragers. With […]
How an ancient collection from long lost civilizations became a focal point of one of the world’s major political controversies today. Documentary | Oeke Hoogendijk | Netherlands | 2021 | 84 mins | Dutch, English, Russian, Ukrainian with English subtitles […]
We are pleased to invite you to an evening of shorts from Alexandria, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers and in partnership with the Jesuits Cultural Center in Alexandria. The screenings are open to everyone, but please note that […]
During the Mamluk period, Cairo and its environs witness an unpreceded urban development and expansion. New quarters are created inside and outside the city’s walls, and the population grows with over 200.000 inhabitants before the burst of the plague in […]
FIASCO Documentary | Nicolas Khoury | 2021 | Lebanon/ Netherlands | 70 min | Arabic and French with English subtitles For half of his life, Nicolas, the director, used the camera as a confidant to film his video diary. This […]
𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐪𝐪𝐚𝐫𝐚 A short film by the Leiden-Turin Expedition to Saqqara — February 2023. The short film (17 mins) is prepared by: Fatma Keshk, Ashraquet Fakhry and Serveaas Neijens. 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: — Welcome by […]
RADIUS is an account of the feminist group Operation Anti Sexual Harassment and Assault. A blend of narrative non-fiction, interviews, and memoir, the book is both a document of this extraordinary history and an attempt to connect it to other […]
Join us for much-anticipated, * brand new * edition of the NVIC Book Fair. At this fair you'll find second-hand books at very reasonable prices, mostly in Arabic or English (and a few other languages). We'll be selling both fiction […]
My Mohamed Is Different Documentary | Inès Marzouk | 2021 | Egypt/Tunisia | 70 min | Arabic and English with English subtitles Sarannah moves to Luxor at 50 where she meets Hamdy, a man in his 30s. Madly and happily […]
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—and on either side of Egypt’s 1922 ‘independence’—the building and heightening of the Aswan Dam under the oversight of British engineers (and sometimes Egyptian capital) radically altered the relationship of the region of […]
This talk presents Mostafa Abdelmeguid’s MA dissertation, which is a reader-friendly book that looks at the traditional city in order to understand how it was structured and how it created a sense of community. Titled The Alley of the Milkmaid: […]
Into Studio Masr Documentary | Directed by Mona Assaad | Egypt | 2018 | 95 min | Arabic with English subtitles After decades of public sector management, Studio Masr was offered for privatisation in 2000. A team of young cinema […]
The film is a journey to the dark side of the Egyptian traditional folk weddings as it tells the story of the belly dancers that dance in these weddings and their complicated relationships with their husbands who happen to also […]
NVICinema | Naji Al-Ali: An Artist With A Vision Documentary | Kasim Abid | Iraq / UK/ Palestine | 1999 | 53 mins | Arabic with English subtitles In July 1987 the Palestinian cartoonist and satirist Naji Al Ali was […]
This talk will attempt to answer two questions: - What does it mean to expand the processes of collecting and telling stories to non-scholarly and non-specialist circles? - What are the consequences of combining both the interlocutors of a researcher’s […]
Where Did Ramses Go? Documentary | Amr Bayoumi | Egypt | 2019 | 62 mins | Arabic with English subtitles Director Amr Bayoumi recalls the transfer of the statue of Ramses II, which he had documented with his personal camera […]
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