Tag: Egypt

On Trials | محاكمات قيد الفحص

On Trials | محاكمات قيد الفحص

In On Trials: A Manual for the Theatre of Law, Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk explore the performativity of the law within Egypt’s spectral legal reality. The publication dissects material collected for their film On Trials, a work-in-progress that uses modes of documentary and fiction making.

Becoming Van Leo

Becoming Van Leo

Becoming Van Leo is a study of the life and times of the late Armenian-Egyptian photographer. Born in 1921, Leon Boyadjian would come to be known as Van Leo, one of the most singular twentieth-century studio photographers in the Arab world.