Film Screening:

The Noise of Cairo
(Heiko Lange, 2012, 57 min, Egypt, in Arabic with English subtitles, color, DVD)

How did the Arab Spring change the lives of Egyptian artists and their work? Crisply produced and swiftly edited, this film by German director Heiko Lange offers a fresh and unexpected viewpoint about the 2011 revolution that changed the course of the region's history. Voices of influential individuals from Egypt's cultural scene - from curators and gallery owners, dancers and street musicians, to poets and graffiti artists - all long repressed during Hosni Mubarak's regime, now speak eloquently about the role that artists played during this crucial event in Egyptian history. As one artist explains, "The wall of censorship fell."

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)