The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) has dealt a blow to beIN Sports, the Qatari bouquet of sports channels, by annulling its contract with the Egyptian operator Cable Network Egypt. According to the ECA’s decision, made public on July 12th, beIN Sports may have “violated Article 8 of the Law on the Protection of Competition by …
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EGYPT / Candidate call for the 2017 MAHD Film Lab
The Egyptian production company Felucca Films and the Swedish Institute in Alexandria are launching the second MAHD Film Lab, a training and assistance programme for young scriptwriters and directors. The MAHD Film Lab is open to all scriptwriters and directors, Arab or European, currently working on a project for a first or second feature-length drama. …
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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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