Mai Elwakil

The Venice Biennale has always been a political event, at which government institutions select artworks to “represent” them through national…

Kamal al-Helbawy, who served as the official Muslim Brotherhood spokesman in the West during the '90s, tells privately-owned Al-Shorouk in…

Throughout the 18-day Egyptian uprising, the walls of Cairo’s downtown buildings were covered with revolutionary graffiti, while makeshift museums dominated…

The 54th Venice Biennale opens Saturday with Egyptian artist, writer and musician Hassan Khan heading the jury that will award…

Last March, the New York based OR Books published the first Twitter book ever, Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s revolution as…

Updates on the prosecution of key figures of former president Hosni Mubarak' regime dominate the headlines of most newspapers on…

The 64th Cannes Film Festival opened on 11 May, and Egypt has been given pride of place as the first…

Both state-run and independent newspapers on Wednesday continue to focus on developments in the sectarian violence that erupted Saturday in…

The Force Majeure performances are meant to engage rather than distract; this was co-curator Adham Hafez’s comment on the show…

Entering the Wireless exhibition in Downtown’s Mashrabia Gallery, visitors find postcards of Cosmic – a silhouetted character developed by Spanish…