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The 1st issue / spring 2002
Cover: A shot from "The Door"
 

Editorial:
Diogenes' Lanterns
News:

Production:

The art of "stick fight – a popular sport and a folk dance in Upper Egypt" in a new film "The Door"
File:

The independent cinema in Egypt: Tala'at Harb is not the only one who constituted "Studio Misr"
The Film Organization: Experience in amateur films
The search for cinematic group
Interview:

Yusri Nasr Allah: The filmmaker' mission is "inventing a cultural institution"
Profile:

Sherief Al Azma
Experience:

Nobuhiro Suwa: rationalizing passion
From the world:

Your guide to watch independent films in Egypt
The final view:

New cameras doesn't necessarily mean making new films

1st Issue
The 2nd edition / summer 2002
Cover: the departed director "Radwan el Kashef"
 

Editorial:
A word is not necessarily paper & ink
News:

Production:

Hala Mansour dreams about tomorrow
"Colors of Love" by Ahmad Ghanem
Alexandria in a new trilogy
Follow-up:

Digital revolution in Cannes 2002
Attempts of renovation in Radwan el Kashef cinema
Experience:

Ahmad Rashwan and "The Coming Morning"
File:

8 rules to write a low-budget film
Your guide to write a great film
Writing for a rebellious medium
Egypt and Lebanon on a train
Interview:

Osama Fawzi: The problem of cinema is being a pop art
Profile:
Tamer Ezzat
From the world:

John Sayls, the audience's enemy
The final view:

Radwan el Kashef: the decease of a distinctive director

2nd Issue
The 3rd edition / winter 2003
Cover: A shot from "A Glimpse at the Sky"
 

Editorial:
The meaning of independence
News:
Production:

Kamla Abu Zekri in her first experience with digital video
File:
Strong shock moves depression in cinema
Making films without films
From video to film
Russia's history in one 90 minute shot
Experience:
"Oasis" a new born joins the independent cinema battalion
Profile:
Hassan Khan
Interview:
Carolin Khalel "I aspire a pop cinema that reflects me… not the opposite"
From the world:
Marinal Sen makes an independent film that defend the Muslims
Akram Za'atry: from video art to a comprehensive view
The final view:
Between compulsion and the alternatives

3rd Issue
The 4th edition / summer 2003
Cover: A shot from "Memento"
 

Special issue on Christopher Nolan's "Memento"
Introduction
The Story
The Script

4th Issue
The 5th edition / spring 2004
Cover: Hind Sabry
 

Editorial:
The world is changing…
News:
Festivals – symposiums – specialized courses – new films
Workshops:
Films that we make ourselves
The first Time:
It has a tongue
Production:
Day and Night
Interview:
Hind Sabry in a new artistic experience
The Egyptian director, Fadel Saleh, after 17 years since his migration to Canada
Reportage:
To whom this film may concern?
11 films, 11 directors to the 11th of September
Two other films to the 11th of September
Each one has his own 11th of September
From the world:
What is Dogme?
The final view:
The 20th film, of the young director Mohammad Khan, keeps amazing us

5th Issue
The 6th edition / winter 2004
Cover: Ahmad Zaky
 

Editorial:
A New Year, A New Page
Festivals:
Amian - Venicia - Beirut - Cartage - Ismaelia
Production:

Taxi
Do You Know Why?
New Space
Articles:
The Digital invades Cinema... but!!
"Harry Poter" is a very interesting book but a gimcrack film
Reportage:
Documentary
In The Limelight
Fellini,"I am a big liar"
File:

Mohamad Khan
Filmography
That who walks on the water
Experience:

An Independent Jordanian Cinema
The Fifth Pound
Cinema & television school on the internet
A good citizen from Maadi
The final view:

Cinema and freedom adventure

6th Issue
The 8th edition / Autumn 2006
Cover: Caravan of the Euro-Arab Cinema
 

Editorial:
Interview:
There are no customs on Dreams
File:

Contraductions of coproduction
Testemonies on coproduction
File:
"The Other" and coproduction cinema in Tunisia
Trends in Tunisian cinema
Reportage:
Palestinian cinema
A new documentary cinema in Germany
Films:

"Cache"
"Poupees d'argile", 2 articles: arabic - english
Paradise Now, 2 articles: arabic - english
Sophie Sholl
Review:

About Euro-Arab Coproduction, in english
Cinema Tunisien:

Etre critique de cinema, in french
Le cinema Tunisien entre diversite et fragilite, in french
Carte contrastee du cinema tunisien, in french

8th Issue

NAZRA Non–Periodical dealing with independent cinema affairs

A window on the different (past & present) cinematic experiences, seeking the release of cinema from the monopolization of mainstream production with its stereotypical standards