Culture

In cosmopolitan Cairo, where all the commotion drives you wild and the traffic is boisterous, two artists display the richness…

Two weeks ago, the novelist Mekkawi Said published his latest book, a collection of short stories called Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad…

Sophisticated coiled lines connected together creating a fascinating painting, the lines carrying different religious and moral messages, all perfectly written…

The key to choosing the right book for summer is throwing out the notion that with summer comes rubbish reads,…

At a photography exhibition at the Sawy Culture Wheel, a photojournalist’s lens captures the enduring vitality of Gaza.Ahmed Hayman, talented…

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. 2010)

Fans of Lebanese diva Fairouz--arguably the most beloved singer in the Arab world--gathered yesterday in the garden hall of Zamalek’s…

The latest installment in a new trend of Egyptian crime-related action movies, El-Kobar (The Big Ones), is big on nothing…

On 21 July, 1960, with a five-hour program which included a reading from the Quran, a speech by President Gamal…

It was a fight even to buy my ticket to The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010). I had to swim through…