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FRANCE / At Cannes, critics give awards to Arab films

On May 21st , the ACC (Arab Cinema Centre) organized their first Critics’ Awards in Cannes, with a jury of critics allocating awards to the best films produced in the Arab world the previous year. 24 Arab, European and American critics, representing 15 countries, chose the 5 award-winners, who each received their trophy at a …

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EGYPT FRANCE / The CMCA collaborates on Bokra Sawa’s new project

The Bokra Sawa association is offering a multimedia workshop for young people from Marseilles and its surrounding areas. The workshop will build on the use of new media and digital tools to document the role of women in the public space and thus train participants in street journalism. The project began in January in Alexandria …

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ARAB WORLD / YouTube launches a channel showing Arabic TV series

The American video streaming giant, YouTube, owned by Google, has brought together 7,000 hours of Arab-made television series dating from 1962 to today. Mosalsalat (“Series” in Arabic) gives free access from any country in the world to programmes made in the Middle East and North Africa. Of the 500 series available, half are Syrian, for …

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EGYPT / Call for films for the 6th Luxor African Film Festival

Submissions may now be sent in for the 6th festival of African film, held in Luxor from March 16th to 22nd 2017. Any African film by an African film-maker and produced in 2016, regardless of its length, can compete. There are three sections: feature films, feature-length documentaries and short films. There is also an international …

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EGYPT / An ONTV journalist thrown out of the country

Late in the afternoon of June 27th Liliane Daoud, a Lebanese-British journalist and presenter on the Egyptian private channel ONTV, was given just a few hours to leave Egypt. According to her lawyer the police went to her home and took her straight to the airport, without giving her time to pack or say goodbye …

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EGYPT / The government hopes TV series will fight drug-taking

On May 12th the Egyptian Minister of Social Solidarity, Ghada Wali, announced that the government will set up a grant of EGP 1 million (about €100,000) to produce a television series during Ramadan to help fight drug abuse in the country. The grant will be funded jointly by the Ministries of Social Solidarity and Youth …

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EGYPT / A presenter suspended having criticised Al Sissi

On November 8th Azza El Hennawy, a presenter on the public channel Al Qahera Al Youm (Cairo Today), was suspended by the management. Hani Jaafar, chairman of ERTU’s regional channels (Egyptian public television and radio), said the journalist had been laid off for not fulfilling her “duty of objectivity”. In early November, Ms El Henawy …

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