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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Waguih Ghali’s 1964 semi-autobiographical novel “Beer in the Snooker Club” is an idiosyncratic piece of literature, written in English by an Egyptian Christian whose language style shares much with the mid-century American...
From its onset, the 25 January revolution has been marked by obsessive documentation. With a multitude of multimedia material came a marked effort to collect and preserve records of the ongoing struggle for change, from state institutions like the...
The days are largely gone when photographers got their hands dirty soaking paper and film in slippery chemicals. But the medium remains difficult to grasp – ubiquitous yet amorphous.
Photography is a visual language used to express...
It hasn't been difficult to spot a trend in recent cultural production tacking the revolution onto everything. Seemingly, the assumption is that if a work is produced in 2011 about Egypt, it must touch upon the 25 January revolution. Relating...
It must be a natural human urge to occasionally conjure up the most fantastic, dream-like reality possible, and give it shape, form and color. And while everyone’s imaginations will take them to uniquely fantastical landscapes, there are...
Dar al-Kotob, the Egyptian National Library, is sometimes lost in the shadow of the National Archives, or forgotten behind the shining facade of Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The library is home to a wide range of valuable collections, but there is much...
A little bit of DIY spirit is making an appearance on the shelves of Cairo’s bookstores. Slim volumes of English language novels by young Egyptian writers have been popping up on book display tables around the city, drawing crowds to book...
In “The Shadow Line” photographic exhibition at el-Bab Gallery, contemporary Egypt is depicted in a way that harkens back to the work of early European photographers documenting Egypt for the first time.
At first glance, the new...
Since May, 4000 Korean books and DVDs have occupied some of the stacks of Cairo’s biggest public library, Dar al-Kotob.
As part of the “Window on Korea” initiative, the National Library of Korea donated a collection that consists...
Thanks to Egypt’s third largest listed real-estate developer, SODIC, a slew of metal sculptures six to nine meters high will soon grace a small stretch of the Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road.
The sculptures that currently occupy a large sandy lot...
