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In 2007, I asked composer Amr Salah, the director of Cairo Jazz Festival, if he was trying to resist the…

The latest exhibition at Mashrabia, "Artists From Today's Syria," opens with a painting by Syrian artist Yasser Safy of a…

Google on Tuesday celebrated the 110th birthday of notable Egyptian singer and composer Mohamed Abdel Wahab, often called the "musician…

There is little of the quiet contemplation or stillness that often accompanies art events. On Lazoughly Square around the corner…

Many Cairenes are moving away from listening to vinyl records to CDs and MP3s. Still, for some, the experience of…

Even in the most dismal of economies, sex sells — and Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam is good at selling it.

Immediately following the first 18 days of the revolution, Egyptian women around the country had greater hopes that their profile…

I know Mohamed Mahmoud Street quite well, albeit in more tempered times. I used to traipse back and forth down…

As consumers become keen to buy Egyptian-made products, designers have gained confidence and several small, local fashion and textile business…

Sixteen Egyptian women took to El Sawy Culture Wheel’s River Hall stage in front of a packed audience on Saturday…