Cairo Film Festival Director Resigns After Controversial Social Media Posts Resurface

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the AP. He was appointed to the position this year after serving as acting artistic director for 2019’s festival.Shawky drew criticism when in 2014 he referred in a blog post to a 2012 soccer riot in Egypt that left 70 people dead.

CAIRO -- The controversial art director of Cairo's international film festival has resigned amid calls for his removal because of past inflammatory posts on social media, the festival said. The resignation of Egyptian film critic Ahmed Shawky was announced Tuesday in a statement by the festival’s advisory board.

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memo to NYT staff by publisher A.G. Sulzberger.

The much-awaited Cannes Film Festival which happens around May every year was cancelled this year owing to the Coronavirus pandemic. Indian celebrities like , , and others who usually walk the red carpet for brands also did not get to put down their best fashionable foot forward.