Media coverage of AIC’s Fourth-Annual Cairo Human Rights Film Festival

On Dec. 26 2011, AIC launched the fourth-annual Cairo Human Rights Film Festival (CHRFF) in Zamalek, downtown Cairo. The opening ceremony and screenings were held at Egypt’s most famous cultural center, Elsawy Culturewheel. The opening ceremony welcomed a large crowd with an introduction by Dalia Ziada, AIC’s Egypt Office Director and Zainab Al-Suwaij, AIC’s Executive…

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The Washington Post: Martin Luther King’s nonviolent civil rights efforts still inspire around the world

In this article written during the celebration of the Martin Luther King Memorial on the Mall celebration, Emily Wax writes, “During the protests this spring in Egypt, a civil-rights-era comic book weaving the tale of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent resistance movement found a fresh audience with the young protesters who packed Cairo’s Tahrir Square.”…

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