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On Thursday, a task force comprising 25 members of the non-governmental organization National Group for Cultural Policies, as well as four MPs from the People’s Assembly Culture, Information and Tourism Committee and four representatives of...
Last year, Egyptian singer Mohamed Mohsen got into a heated debate with leading musician Hany Shenouda about the future of the Egyptian independent music scene. Mohsen argued that enforcing intellectual property rights to combat online sharing is...
In 2007, I asked composer Amr Salah, the director of Cairo Jazz Festival, if he was trying to resist the deterioration in mainstream Egyptian music with jazz.
“It’s not a war,” was his response. “I don't have any...
“I'm a young female, gambling on [people’s] imagination.”
This is how the 42-year-old novelist and associate professor of English at Suez Canal University, Mona Prince, introduced herself for the presidential race.
Prince never...
Since the 25 January revolution broke out last year, many musicians have been looking to Egypt for inspiration and at times visiting the country to experience the supposed newfound freedom of expression that the revolution brought about. However,...
“He who passes place and time lightly,
Doesn’t let place enslave him, or time waste him”
(From “The Beauty of the Passenger” by Lebanese poet Wadi’ Sa’dah)
These verses seem to best reflect the spirit of...
Lebanese censors on Saturday reversed their decision to ban “On the Importance of Being an Arab,” a monodrama by Egyptian theater director Ahmed al-Attar, from showing at the Monnot Theater in Beirut.
“On the Importance of Being an...
Saeed Tawfiq, a professor of aesthetics at Cairo University, was appointed the new secretary general of the Supreme Council of Culture on Thursday, after the resignation of Camellia Sobhy.
Sobhy, the first woman to head the council, resigned...
From the outset, the 43rd Cairo International Book Fair was surrounded by controversy. The government called for postponing it due to security concerns, but many opposed the move. The Egyptian Publishers Association warned that the fair would be...
A young man with a brush painting the Egyptian flag and writing the revolution's slogans on the walls was one of the first thing you saw when you got to Tahrir Square in the early days of the revolution.
Like him, thousands of other Egyptians...
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