
Joseph Fahim
Critic and Programmer Freelance at Rotten Tomatoes
I do a whole bunch of things in cinema as my overlong futile search for home drags on.
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2 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Joseph Fahim
In 2025, actor and comedian Ramy Youssef could very well be the most famous Egyptian celebrity in the US. The writer-director-producer has attracted legions of fans, including Taylor Swift, thanks to his affable demeanour and sharp observations on the everyday struggles of Arab-Americans in the US. Youssef was definitely not the first Arab-American comedian to find fame in popular culture.
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4 weeks ago |
middleeasteye.net | Joseph Fahim |Peter Oborne
This article was initially set out to focus on The Encampments, Kei Pritsker and Michael T. Workman’s impassioned documentary that chronicles the Columbia University student movement that shook the US and captured imaginations the world over. But then it came to my attention that a sparring film has been released around in the same timeframe, offering a staunchly pro-Israeli counter-narrative that vehemently attempts to discredit the account offered by The Encampment.
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1 month ago |
defenddemocracy.press | Joseph Fahim
By Joseph FahimFebruary14, 2025When was the first time I heard Adaweyah? As a child of the 1980s, it’s impossible to put a finger on the exact date. The music of Egypt’s greatest shaabi singer was as ubiquitous as television: it was everywhere, for everyone, at all times. It was catchy, unwieldy, and uncommon: unbridled in its sexuality, in its weariness of a changing Cairo, in its defiance to the bourgeois norms of good taste.
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1 month ago |
middleeasteye.net | Joseph Fahim
Once a vehicle for Egyptian soft power, Cairo is struggling to exert its influence through its shows Underneath the Seventh Earth is a Syrian thriller about a rogue cop's involvement in the criminal underworld (Cedars Art Production) 15 April 2025 10:52 BST ago The 2025 Ramadan TV season continues to dominate cultural discourse in the Arab World even after the end of the Muslim holy month, which doubles as the premiere season for blockbuster shows in the region.
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2 months ago |
middleeasteye.net | Joseph Fahim
The 2024 Berlinale was the most memorable edition in the film festival’s recent history for all the wrong reasons. The initial outcry over the opening ceremony invitation for the far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AFD) gave way to protests over Germany’s complicity in the war on Gaza.
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