Culture

Although filmmaker Jocelyne Saab was born and raised and is based in Beirut, her filmmaking career has also centered on…

We live in Cairo. We live Cairo. We walk it, drive it, breathe it, choke on it. Sometimes if we…

“Give me verse like that, give me a poet like Abu Tayeb al-Mutanabbi, and I’ll go with you to the…

It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more.…

Since the Alternative News Agency (ANA), a workshop and publication project organized by the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC), was first…

I first heard of Mashrou Leila sometime last year, after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak. There was a YouTube clip…

The “Be changed and bring about change” festival, held at downtown Cairo’s Metropolis Theater, presented its final play, "The World…

For the fifth time since the 25 January uprising last year, the Culture Ministry’s leadership changed as part of the…

  Amid the hype surrounding the upcoming presidential election, little is being said or done by the contestants to address…

Xenia Nikolskaya’s collection of photographs, “Dust,” currently on display in the Townhouse first floor gallery space, opens the doors to…