January 28th, 2012 
Rowan El Shimi فيلم جديد بالغة العربية مع وجود ترجمة لعدة لغات ليعرف العالم على الشيخ إمام. الفيلم من إخراج و إنتاج و سيناريو أحمد مناويشي. يتكلم الفيلم عن حياة و موسيقة الفنان المناضل الشيخ إمام مع العلم إنه كان أحد رموز الكفاح المصري في الستينات من أجل الحرية و العدالة الاجتماعية. أغاني الشيخ إمام مع قدمها [...]
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Tags: Documentary, Egyptian Revolution, Film, Sheikh Imam 
No Comments » January 27th, 2012 Rowan El Shimi Just got myself a nice new fish eye lens extension! So decided to take all the photos from the Jan 25 march heading to Tahrir with it. Sometimes we just need a new perspective to look at something we’ve seen before. Although, no protest over the past year was as big as Jan25 2012.
January 24th, 2012 Rowan El Shimi Egyptian artists, actors, filmmakers and musicians march from the Cairo Opera House to the Parliament demanding full creative freedom. [Published in Ahram Online] On Monday 23 January, the newly formed Egyptian Creativity Front organised a march from the Cairo Opera House in Zamalek to the parliament building calling on all members of the People’s Assembly to [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Published Articles Tags: Arts, Culture, Egypt, Freedom of Expression No Comments » January 23rd, 2012 Rowan El Shimi Today from the Opera to Parliament the Front to Defend Creative Freedoms organised a march to demand freedom of creative expression with no boundaries, censorship or monitoring to be ensured by the new parliament. The march reached about 2,000 people at its peak. They issued a statement that was to be read by their spokes [...]
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January 14th, 2012 Rowan El Shimi In a follow up to a previous article I’ve written regarding Hydrarchy Exhibition, this is focused on the Symposium where speakers discussed different aspects of the sea as a socioeconomic and political space. Speakers discussed historical and artistic impact of the sea, illegal immigration across the Mediterranean, Somali pirates and the Gaza Freedom Flotillas. All [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Published Articles Tags: Art & Culture, Flotilla, Gaza, Hydrarchy, Israeli Occupation, Palestine, Visual Art 1 Comment »
January 14th, 2012 Rowan El Shimi Oyoon Art Group are operating in Minya City to establish it as a cultural hub for Upper-Egypt by creating free and open spaces for self-expression and crowd-sourcing techniques to establish Minya’s cultural identity. [Article published in Ahram Online] I attended one of their events in Minya last July, which inspired me to write another article [...]
Posted in Ahram Online, Published Articles Tags: Art for Development, Culture, Minya, Oyoon, Youth No Comments » January 2nd, 2012 Rowan El Shimi Just went to see Lebanese film “Where Do We Go From Here?” by Director Nadine Labaki. I highly recommend you go see it as its a light, fun and beautiful film that touches upon themes such as friendship, co-existence, peace, creativity and the true power women have in society. The film is set in a [...]
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