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The ‘Dune’ bug strikes again – From mistakes in the print shop to mishaps on the silver screen

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD “The sooner we admit our capacity for evil the less apt we are to destroy each other. ... People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can’t stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to […]

A Call to Arms: Egypt’s ‘Al-Mamar’ and the New War of Cinematic Attrition

By Emad El-Din Aysha, PhD I haven’t been to a movie theatre for quite a while now, let alone to watch an Arabic movie. But, I couldn’t resist this time, with Sherif Arafa’s Al-Mamar (or The Passage) portraying one of those sadly forgotten battles during the war of attrition between Egypt and Israel […]

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