{
  "id": 19665270,
  "title": "Cairo Film Festival Artistic Director Mohamed Tarek on Trusting Audiences: They ‘Are Often More Adventurous Than We Imagine’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/cairo-film-festival-artistic-director-mohamed-tarek-on-trusting",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-12T14:23:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/cairo-film-festival-artistic-director-mohamed-tarek-1236946096/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For Mohamed Tarek, one of the biggest lessons from his first year as artistic director of the Cairo Intl. Film Festival came from an unexpected source – the audience. After drawing approximately 45,000 ticket sales last year, the festival is building on that response with an expanded program that challenges traditional screening hierarchies, introduces new […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}