Mai Elwakil

As they walked out from “I’m Nobody’s Shadow” onto the streets of the ancient city of Tunis, audiences couldn’t help…

On one end of the concrete wall blocking Qasr al-Aini Street stands a small grocery store with a red façade.…

Last June, a famous olive oil soap “fossil” from the brand Nabolsy Shahin was exhibited in a vitrine at the…

The Finance Ministry's recent proposal to rent out the country’s key monuments, including the pyramids in Giza, to fund the…

Almost every reader on the planet is familiar in some way with the epic “1,001 Nights.” We know of Sultan…

I barely knew Ahmed Basiony in person. I only got to meet him casually at exhibition openings around downtown or…

Sadly, Sama Waly’s video installation in Photo Cairo 5 was removed before the show came to an end due to…

Childish fear was the emotion that artist Noura Seif sought to evoke with “Boody,” a collection of drawings and sculptures…

For most of us living in Cairo, it’s often difficult to imagine what our neighborhoods might have looked like in…

“He swore it all took place under a giant glass dome,” reads a sentence printed in silver below a photograph…