Culture

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…

A scholar named Solomon Schechter traveled to Cairo 120 years ago to do what so many Western explorers, scholars and…

One of the massive economic changes in 1980s Egypt was the rise of pyramid schemes. Presented as highly rewarding (offering…