Ola El-Saket

Set away from the UAE’s major cities with their crisp paved roads and marvelous skyscrapers, Nawaf al-Janahi’s second feature-length film…

It’s difficult times for the organizers of the 35th Cairo International Film Festival, which will showcase 125 films from 66…

Photos were the most dramatic element of Wednesday's newspapers, which focused on otherwise expected reporting of the anti-constitutional declaration protests…

 

In the second part of our review of the Institut d’Egypte, Egypt Independent is focusing on the restoration of its…

The country's constitution authors top newspaper headlines for the second day, as evidenced by Al-Shorouk’s "The Constituent Assembly survived drowning."…

General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Culture Saeed Tawfiq is leading the third round of reform discussions to be…

Concerned about copyrights and regulating publishing, the Egyptian Publishers Association has put together a document envisioned to be a reference…

The doctors' strike is the only event highlighted in all of Tuesday's newspapers. Freedom and Justice, the daily published by…

After several days of protests over a film about Prophet Mohamed deemed insulting, Monday’s newspapers moved to social and economic…

The first Luxor Egyptian and European Film Festival opens tonight in the esplanade of the magnificent Karnak Temple, showcasing 64…

On Thursday, President Mohamed Morsy met with a group of writers, filmmakers, actors and artists at the presidential palace in…

Mennat Allah Rizk is a young Muslim artist. Magdy Mikhail is Christian. They both took part in last week’s workshop…

  Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's visit to Sinai overshadows Eid al-Fitr in Tuesday’s headlines. State-run daily Al-Ahram stated the…

With the beats of the karakeb (large metal castanets) and the clap of their hands, Moroccan artists Mahdi Nassouli and…

The story of Tahiya Carioca (1919–1999) is that of modern belly dance. Om Kalthoum once described her as an artist…

  Less than 40 days after he resigned from his post, Saber Arab, a professor of history at Al-Azhar University,…

Last weekend, Lebanese singer Oumeima El Khalil performed with composer and pianist Hani Siblini for two consecutive nights at El…

The feeling author Muhammed Aladdin offers his readers in his latest collection of 23 short stories, “The Small and the…

  Books of every genre colored the library of novelist Alaa El Deeb, but what immediately caught my attention as…