Helen Stuhr-Rommereim
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Helen contributes to the culture section of Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition. She graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, United States with a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Russian Literature. Before moving to Egypt, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Russia. Her website is www.helenstuhrrommereim.com.
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The 20th Arab Music Festival and Conference opened Friday evening at the Cairo Opera House with a dramatic pageant of over-the-top nationalism, themed around the 2011 revolutions in the Arab world. The show was a flashy, exhilarating spectacle...
The Dead Sea Scrolls were fated to a controversial place in history. After being secreted away in a cave, supposedly by an ancient monastic Jewish community, they lay hidden for nearly 2000 years until being discovered in 1947 — just the right...
From Damon Kowarsky’s quiet charcoal cityscapes, to Qarm Qart’s psychedelic depictions of Cairo street scenes, recent exhibitions at Mashrabia Gallery have highlighted the various ways Cairo inspires visiting or transplanted artists....
Not so long ago, the space now colorfully occupied by the new Alexandrian cultural center Al-Cabina was a dump so full of trash it was anyone’s guess what exactly was buried behind the mountains of waste. Ayman Asfour, organizer of Al-Cabina...
The Arab Shorts Film Festival began as a one-time event in 2009, but caught on strongly enough that this Thursday will mark the beginning of its third edition. And according to artistic director Marcel Schwierin, “This year the festival is...
On the second day of the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries, the Green Plaza Movie Theater had yet to put up signs indicating the film festival was taking place, and printed schedules were still unavailable. Resources seemed to be...
After the cancellation of the Cairo and Ismailia film festivals this year, the Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries has stepped up as one festival that is willing to brave post-25 January Egypt. Staking out its position...
Hanging in frames in pristine galleries and museums, or stored carefully in an artist’s studio, off limits for touching or even looking too closely, works of art are often wrapped in layers of mystique and preciousness, treated as perfected,...
Maybe the true sign of an excellent restaurant, where the utmost attention is paid to every detail, is the presence of designer toothpicks, often the very last and most forgettable element of any dining experience. It may seem a frivolous item to...
The small, spare exhibition space of the Photographic Gallery, located on the American University in Cairo’s New Campus, currently hosts images by almost thirty photographers, spanning a wide range of subjects and styles. Moving from a...
