Helen Stuhr-Rommereim

At the end of October, Haris Epaminonda’s video “Tarahi II” screened during the Arab Shorts Festival at the Goethe Institute…

There is a lot of art on the Internet. Most newly created art, no matter who makes it or where…

  When Ibrahim al-Dessouky, a professor of painting at Helwan University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, wanted to teach his class…

In the heady days immediately following Mubarak’s ouster last winter, Amira Hanafi and her colleagues at the Artellewa art space,…

“Missing Pieces,” Karim Bakry’s project on exhibition at Mashrabia Art Gallery this month, began as a response to a request…

When Alaa Abd al-Hamid held his exhibition, "The Situation is Fluid," at Artellewa almost a year ago, the young sculptor…

The Egypt Photo Marathon is a mental and visual challenge, a game in which the competition is equal parts endurance…

Since the Alternative News Agency (ANA), a workshop and publication project organized by the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), was first…

Xenia Nikolskaya’s collection of photographs, “Dust,” currently on display in the Townhouse first floor gallery space, opens the doors to…

Ajam Band is not just a musical group; it is a project of cultural preservation and revitalization. Their music is…

Ramzy Mustafa’s new exhibition in the Bab Gallery at the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art employs many of the familiar…

Sometimes certain questions are asked over and over again, because the answers they provoke are never satisfying. In Cairo since…

Youssra El-Hawary seems to have a magic touch. Her music video for the song “Al-Soor” (“The Wall”), the first video…

The exhibition space at Artellewa is not typical of white-cube galleries. It may be, technically, a white cube, but the…

Usually, the word “hacker” brings to mind lonely, late-night computing and the ability to break through virtual walls, often employed…

A wall of text can be daunting to confront in the context of an art exhibition. It asks the viewer…

This Thursday, one of the most ambitious cultural events in Cairo’s recent history will set out to transform downtown Cairo…

Artwork produced in Cairo, regardless of who is making it — visiting artist or lifelong resident — tends often to…

A great amalgamation of art and engineering, architectural vision determines the spaces we live in and traverse. In Cairo, questions…

Before Rana ElNemr began her celebrated artistic career, she worked as a photojournalist; a sense of journalistic documentation and examination…