Culture

Listening to Quranic verses and prayers playing on the radio while riding a cab is common in Cairo. But recently,…

Heba Yossry seems to make her films for herself. They do not seek to impress through any slickness or bravura,…

  ALEXANDRIA — The high windows of Hotel Crillon on Alexandria’s Mediterranean coastline give out onto a stunning horizon. But…

  What is one of Egypt’s first independent theater troupes, El-Warsha, doing putting on a performance of a play written…

A number of activists and their friends spent Monday evening at the Rooftop Studios in downtown Cairo finding out about…

Saqqara is renowned for being one of Greater Cairo’s most alluring locations for archaeologists and tourists alike. One of the…

The Ministry of Antiquities urged the British government to halt bids on Pharonic artifacts that were put on display at…

We have all heard the phrase, “seeing is believing.” But German cultural-development mavericks Julia Tieke and Berit Schuck are hard-pressed…

General Secretary of the Supreme Council of Culture Saeed Tawfiq is leading the third round of reform discussions to be…

The years I worked as a translator were some of the most frustrating of my career. I would often spend…