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Walter Chappell’s Metaflora: Auras and electrons
October 5, 2010
Walter Chappell’s Metaflora: Auras and electrons
“These electron images of plant life were realized without a camera in total darkness,” reads the invitation to the Metaflora…
Egyptian cassette union takes aim at online IPR violators in Arab world
October 4, 2010
Egyptian cassette union takes aim at online IPR violators in Arab world
In an attempt to protect intellectual property rights (IPR), the Egyptian Cassette Production Union on Monday sent a list of…
Urban Culture Gathering: Singing to remember, dancing to forget
October 3, 2010
Urban Culture Gathering: Singing to remember, dancing to forget
The energy on stage at al-Genina theatre in Al-Azhar park last Thursday night was in attack mode for the opening…
World Culture: Star Wars in 3-D, Facebook on film, murals all over
October 1, 2010
World Culture: Star Wars in 3-D, Facebook on film, murals all over
In a new series called "World culture," the Al-Masry Al-Youm culture staff reviews the week’s best, worst, and biggest in…
Egypt’s Museums I: The Museum of Islamic Art
September 29, 2010
Egypt’s Museums I: The Museum of Islamic Art
Egypt is home to dozens of museums, from downtown’s hugely popular Egyptian Museum to the strange and too-often overlooked Agricultural…
Framing celebrity: Ahmed Kamel’s photographs
September 28, 2010
Framing celebrity: Ahmed Kamel’s photographs
Portrait photography has long been concerned with celebrity. Early photographs aimed to capture the stature of their subjects who were…
Project Yourself at Makan: An occasion for one-liners
September 26, 2010
Project Yourself at Makan: An occasion for one-liners
It takes a lot of courage to perform in front of an audience of mostly strangers—a fact that, given the…
Unique Designs: A tribute in jewelry to Egyptian poet Salah Jahin
September 25, 2010
Unique Designs: A tribute in jewelry to Egyptian poet Salah Jahin
Funky jewelry mingled with Egyptian folklore on Friday at Unique Designs' sixteenth exhibition, a tribute to colloquial poet Salah Jahin…
World culture: Morocco in New York, Iraq on film, Paris online
September 24, 2010
World culture: Morocco in New York, Iraq on film, Paris online
In a new series called "World culture," the Al-Masry Al-Youm culture staff reviews the week’s best, worst, and biggest in…
Cause for alarm: Fire safety at Egyptian theaters
September 22, 2010
Cause for alarm: Fire safety at Egyptian theaters
The Egyptian Theater House, along with the Egyptian Civil Defense force, in an effort to avoid the recurrence of tragic…