In this week’s roundtable discussion, we first praise the movie "The Magnificent Seven", as it involves a variety of actors from distinctive races and backgrounds, including Denzel Washington.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/23/entertainment/magnificent-seven-denzel-washington-chris-pratt/index.html
Moreover, we discuss Egyptian-American Rami Malek’s Emmy win for his show “Mr. Robot” as well as his ethnic identity.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/09/rami-malek-arab-hollywood-160922050540366.html
Then we acknowledge the new performance called Zambalek by the students of The Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Arts School taken place in Cairo’s El-Genaina Theatre.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/35/241676/Arts--Culture/Stage--Street/Art-Alert-Egypts-AlDarb-AlAhmar-Arts-School-to-pre.aspx
For this week’s interview, we spoke to Professor Jillian Campana from the Department of Theatre about diversity in the Western showbusiness.
We also interviewed Rowan Ibrahim, a student at the American University of Sharjah, to get a different opinion on the topic.
https://twitter.com/rowanibrahim
Credits:
Image: @SamaElFeky
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Music: Sleepless Nights by Anitek
Host: @SamaElFeky
Producer #1: @AlaaElDirini
Producer #2: @YasmineBassily
