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A Bahraini doctor, a female Yemeni writer and an Egyptian football player were sitting on a stage last week to…

In his lecture performance at the Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum’s symposium “Times are changing, what will art do about it?”…

The politics were somber, the mood was buoyant. The audience was small, about half the capacity of the El Sawy…

Ramzy Mustafa’s new exhibition in the Bab Gallery at the Museum of Modern Egyptian Art employs many of the familiar…

During late President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s reign, Egypt was generally seen as a site for booming industry, with factories erected…

There’s something infuriating about Otaak Band. Their CD release party at the Cairo Jazz Club — which saw six musicians…

Over the past week, a rift has grown between cultural activists and El Sawy Culture Wheel, a cultural center founded…

A woman shivers while she walks on stage, hardly breathing. She pretends to be fine, though, and tries to fix…

Youssra El-Hawary seems to have a magic touch. Her music video for the song “Al-Soor” (“The Wall”), the first video…

The profile picture of the “Hayatem for President” Facebook page is one of the belly dancer and actress in her…