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One feature of Ramadan dramas this year is the absence of several superstars that viewers have been accustomed to watch…

If you piled up all the books that feature one-dimensional Islamist characters, you would have a veritable mountain of thrillers,…

Badiaa Bouhrizi, an underground Tunisian composer and singer, paid her first visit to Egypt last week and performed to an…

On the opening night of “Lessons in Revolting”, Rawabet Theater was packed full, leaving many disappointed latecomers turned away at…

“Al-Shahroura,” a biographical drama of glamorous and prolific Lebanese singer Sabah showing this month, focuses on the personal life and…

Almost nothing can more completely foil a plan than a war followed by a protracted occupation. But despite an impressive…

To paraphrase scholar and geographer Gamal Hemdan's masterpiece "The Personality of Egypt", antiquities from the Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman through…

Despite being rivals in the political arena, the Indian Qawwali Group and Pakistani Rafi Peer band sang side by side,…

Generously sprinkled throughout Cairo’s streets there exists an understated art form - that of kitsch art, which has over the…

Younger generations best know Egyptian singer, Talaat Zein, for his '90s hit “Ta’ala” (Come On) and a local rendition of…