culture

March 5, 2019

Rio Carnival revels in last night of partying and political protest

Rio threw the second and final night of its celebrated carnivalright through to dawn Tuesday in a show that blended…

March 2, 2019

During his career as an actor, Morgan Freeman has played the role of God. In real life, he claims to…

February 23, 2019

R&B superstar R. Kelly turned himself in to Chicago police on Friday, after prosecutors charged him with 10 counts of…

February 19, 2019

Fathy Abdel Wahab, head of the cultural development fund, announced that the Naguib Mahfouz museum at the Muhammed Bek Abu…

February 18, 2019

Hidayat Taymour, widow of veteran journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, signed the final agreement on Sunday with the director of Bibliotheca…

February 12, 2019

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Like many other Iranian-Americans, Minoo Sharifan came to the United States from Iran in the 1970s…

January 27, 2019

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inspected the Arts and Culture City, home to the New Opera House in the New…

January 23, 2019

Once a year Parkes, a sleepy mining town in rural Australia, explodes into color and song — a veritable…

January 21, 2019

Hundreds of thousands of Malaysian Hindus, some piercing their skin with hooks and skewers to show their devotion, gathered…

December 18, 2018

The inauguration ceremony of Egypt’s new Greco-Roman Museum will be held by the end of 2019, Assistant Minister of Antiquities…