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The fifth Spring Festival, a showcase of Arab arts and music, starts on Friday night in six cities across Egypt and…

The exhibition space at Artellewa is not typical of white-cube galleries. It may be, technically, a white cube, but the…

On a hot spring day in Cairo, a group of amateur and professional photographers walked the city’s streets, trying to…

Egyptian-American playwright Yussef El Guindi has received one of America’s most prestigious theater awards: a US$25,000 “new play award” from…

When asked what role art should play in society and culture, Ramy Dozy quickly replies: “To reach a point where…

For how long will artists continue “representing” the January revolution in didactic ways, pretending that their audience were neither part…

Usually, the word “hacker” brings to mind lonely, late-night computing and the ability to break through virtual walls, often employed…

It is difficult to describe exactly what you are doing when you go to one of Ant Hampton’s theater pieces.…

Many people excitedly followed the clownfish air swimmers' ads when they first came out a few years back. Few expected…

A wall of text can be daunting to confront in the context of an art exhibition. It asks the viewer…