Art and Culture

Popular Egyptian “Shaabi” singer Shaaban Abdel Rahim passed away at Maadi Military Hospital on Wednesday at the age of 62…

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award on Tuesday announced it is stripping the 2009-2010 winner of the literature section of his…

The Artbeat festival promises four days of art commotion in Egypt. The festival, brainchild of the Cairo Jazz Club, Darb…

“Intuited Happiness,” the latest exhibition by artist Islam Zaher, attempts to highlight the vivid contrast that exists in the Egyptian…

Driving from my home in Heliopolis to the Cairo Opera House in Gezira often takes over an hour, and is…

Ashraf Talaat's exhibition of photographs, Point of view, opened Sunday night at El Sawy Cultural Wheel in Zamalek. Al-Masry Al-Youm…

Sunday night marked the premier of Palestinian film Al mur wal rumman (Pomegranates and Myrrh, 2008) in Egyptian movie theaters.The…

Eftekasat, an Egyptian jazz band founded in 2001 by pianist and composer Amr Salah, performed yesterday at the closing ceremony…

Cairo's second International Jazz Festival brought together some of Egypt's best jazz bands as well as groups from eight other…

"Alice in Wonderland," directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway, opened…