Popes on the big screen: how cinema has depicted the pontiff

Al Majalla gives an overview of some of the most noteworthy films and TV shows about the pope

Shadi Alaa Aldin

Who'd be a Woman in Egypt?

[caption id="attachment_55232465" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptian demonstrators shout slogans against former President Hosni Mubarak and members of former regime in Cairo's…

Alastair Beach

Protests Threaten Egypt Elections

[caption id="attachment_55232399" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Policemen clash with anti-Mubarak protesters. Anti and pro-Hosni Mubarak protest react after announcement of former…

Alastair Beach

A World of Possibilities

[caption id="attachment_55232344" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Bibliotheca Alexandrina"][/caption] Bibliotheca Alexandrina will soon celebrate its tenth anniversary. The library offers a…

Noam Schimmel

Yesterday's Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55232318" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="The ghosts of the past haunt Egypt"][/caption] Shortages—of petrol, electricity, hard currency, patience—plague Egypt. But…

Stephen Glain

A Montage of Invasion

[caption id="attachment_55232250" align="alignnone" width="615" caption="Photo Op ( kennardPhillips/ Mosaic Rooms)"][/caption] You may recognise kennardphillips’ Photo Op. It is a photomontage of…

Celia Topping

The Not-So-Quiet Arab Americans

[caption id="attachment_55232040" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Hayan Charara"][/caption] [inset_left]Inclined to Speak: an Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry Edited by Hayan…

Noam Schimmel

Reading Syria

[caption id="attachment_552320" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Syria has been the subject of several scholarly texts"][/caption] 1. Malik Mufti, Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and…

Andrew Bowen

The Dictator of Laughs

[caption id="attachment_55231942" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Sacha Baron Cohen dressed as Admiral General Aladeen"][/caption] Admiral Shabazz Aladeen, dictator of Wadiya, has much in…

Nicholas Blincoe

Jumping off the Pages

[blockquote]You realize that in silences things yield and almost betray their ultimate secrets [/blockquote] The catalogue for Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s newly opened Museum of Innocence…

Vedica Kant

In It Together

[caption id="attachment_55231780" align="alignnone" width="620" caption="Princess Badiya Bint El Hassan speaking at the event"][/caption] In It Together Muslim/Christian Relations: Co-Operation Not…

Noam Schimmel