February 26, 2014, Vice by Jared Malsin Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla is one of the chief protagonists in the documentary The Square, which was nominated earlier this month for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His new film, In the Last Days of the City, is going to be even better. Last Days tells a story that roughly echoes Khalid's own life: It's the tale of a documentarian who is trying to make a film about his city, Cairo, and according to Khalid, "
February 26, 2014, Vice by Jared Malsin Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla is one of the chief protagonists in the documentary The Square, which was nominated earlier this month for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His new film, In the Last Days of the City, is going to be even better. Last Days tells a story that roughly echoes Khalid's own life: It's the tale of a documentarian who is trying to make a film about his city, Cairo, and according to Khalid, "
Channel 4 News, 14 August 2013 Actor and director Khalid Abdalla gives his personal response to the deadly violence gripping Egypt following operations to clear pro-Morsi camps in Cairo. I'm disgusted by the blood, and resisting falling prey to a polarised narrative. I don't believe the sit-in should have been cleared, but I'm against what the sit-in stands for. I hold both the army and the Brotherhood responsible for the situation we're in - on so many levels - and unfortunately it's the narratives they are peddling, in blood, in actions and in words, that are currently defining how things are framed, internally and externally.
Channel 4 News, 14 August 2013 Actor and director Khalid Abdalla gives his personal response to the deadly violence gripping Egypt following operations to clear pro-Morsi camps in Cairo. I'm disgusted by the blood, and resisting falling prey to a polarised narrative. I don't believe the sit-in should have been cleared, but I'm against what the sit-in stands for. I hold both the army and the Brotherhood responsible for the situation we're in - on so many levels - and unfortunately it's the narratives they are peddling, in blood, in actions and in words, that are currently defining how things are framed, internally and externally.
16 August 2013 Both the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood are "wrong" and "fundamentally fascist organisations", an Egyptian actor and activist has claimed. Khalid Abdalla, known to western audiences for his roles in The Kite Runner and United 93, told the BBC's Mishal Husain the he "rejected the binaries" being presented - the choice between the two organisations - saying the future solution had to be an inclusive one, with everyone represented.
16 August 2013 Both the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood are "wrong" and "fundamentally fascist organisations", an Egyptian actor and activist has claimed. Khalid Abdalla, known to western audiences for his roles in The Kite Runner and United 93, told the BBC's Mishal Husain the he "rejected the binaries" being presented - the choice between the two organisations - saying the future solution had to be an inclusive one, with everyone represented.
Khalid Abdalla stands in front of a painting of the Arabic word for "Resist" in Cairo. Photograph: David Degner David Degner/David Degner The British-born actor found success in United 93 and The Kite Runner, but has spent much of the last three years camped out in Tahrir Square Andrew Anthony
Sunday 3 November 2013
When actor and political activist Khalid Abdalla was a young schoolboy, a teacher set his class the task of writing their own obituaries.
Khalid Abdalla stands in front of a painting of the Arabic word for "Resist" in Cairo. Photograph: David Degner David Degner/David Degner The British-born actor found success in United 93 and The Kite Runner, but has spent much of the last three years camped out in Tahrir Square Andrew Anthony
Sunday 3 November 2013
When actor and political activist Khalid Abdalla was a young schoolboy, a teacher set his class the task of writing their own obituaries.
Yasmin El-Rifae
June 12th, 2015, Muftah I walked through downtown Cairo on a quiet Friday morning in March 2015, late to a conference I had helped organize and a little bit anxious. The conference was about the political importance of translation – of language and concepts – in connecting protest movements to one another and allowing them to be narrated from within. We had tried to make the conference sound mundane to state authorities, who had issued our permits, but I was not entirely sure it would work.
