Culture

On a hot spring day in Cairo, a group of amateur and professional photographers walked the city’s streets, trying to…

Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi has received one of America’s most prestigious theater awards: a US$25,000 “new play award” from…

When asked what role art should play in society and culture, Ramy Dozy quickly replies: “To reach a point where…

A book about oddity and literature would naturally seem attractive, with readers expecting it to highlight experimental writing and the…

For how long will artists continue “representing” the January revolution in didactic ways, pretending that their audience were neither part…

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

Actor Fouad Khalil died Monday after a long battle with illness. He was 72. Khalil spent his last few days…

It is difficult to describe exactly what you are doing when you go to one of Ant Hampton’s theater pieces.…

“Muslim” and “Moslem” are nothing more than “two different spellings of the same word,” according to the US-based Center for…

Many attempts to document Egypt's 25 January revolution have been made over the past year. The American University in Cairo's…