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Due to its exceptionally clear skies, the Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the best places in the world…

Archaeologists issued a statement slamming a statue in the courtyard of the College de France showing the French Egyptologist Jean…

This year’s International Prize for Arabic Fiction shortlist, announced in Tunis on Wednesday night, was a surprise to many.

On a warm summer evening in 1952, Cairo’s aristocracy gathered for a soiree at a palace belonging to King Farouk’s…

Two new censorship incidents were reported this past week. The first happened over the weekend, when Youth Minister Osama Yassin…

If you’ve ever watched Ibrahim Eissa’s political talk show on television, then you would know what to expect from his…

Ahmed and Sherif, two regular young men of the same age, speak about their confined lives, one a soldier, the…

“What does a drawing want?” is Beirut in Cairo’s second exhibition, and its first group show. Presented as “a draft…

Two suspects were arrested for the illegal possession of 50 ancient Egyptian artefacts in Fayoum on Thursday. The tourism and…

Less than three months after its release, a reprint of “Al-Feel al-Azraq” (The Blue Elephant) came out in December to…