Culture

Like the crazed, bloodthirsty maniac in any self-respecting horror film franchise, the 1980s, it seems, will never die. The past…

It must be a natural human urge to occasionally conjure up the most fantastic, dream-like reality possible, and give it…

Laila Shereen Sakr, digitally known as VJ Um Amel, speaks fondly about the real-time mixing between theory and practice. Her…

“The issue is not about applying Shariah (Islamic jurisprudence), but is a matter of choice between a theocratic and a…

The Supreme Council of Culture, headed by Culture Minister Emad Abu Ghazi, announced the winners of the state's 2011 cultural…

The word “Al-Fagoumi” - the alias of Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm - is a linguistic combination of three Arabic…

Thursday marked 16 years since Egyptian film director Atef al-Tayeb passed away.  A pioneer of the “New Realism” wave that…

The annual AUC Press Book, Art, and Music Festival held Wednesday at the Cairo Opera House celebrated the 25 January…

Combining the sincerity of a personal testimony with the drama of scripted dialogue, theater director Laila Soliman’s latest play “No…

Dar al-Kotob, the Egyptian National Library, is sometimes lost in the shadow of the National Archives, or forgotten behind the…