Artistic expression was under tight control in Egypt before the January 2011 revolution, and remains so today.
The Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression recently released a documentary exploring freedom of creativity in Egypt by interviewing the artists that have been subjected to governmental censorship.
The documentary features interviews with journalist Ahmad Nagy who covers culture and literature for the daily newspaper Al Akhbar, film director Ahmad Abdalla best known for his two feature films Heliopolis and Microphone, and musician Ramy Essam who was dubbed by the New Yorker as “the bard of the Egyptian revolution”.
To learn more about this issue, check out AFTE’s report in collaboration with Freemuse entitled “Censors of Creativity” and published in April 2014.
