Culture

ALEXANDRIA — One of the most interesting factors in short filmmaking is the need for succinctness, getting straight to the…

In late August, organizers of the Etel Adnan Award for Women Playwrights announced that their 2012 award would go to…

This week, organizers of the Sharjah International Book Fair announced that their 2012 “Cultural Personality of the Year” award would…

On Thursday, President Mohamed Morsy met with a group of writers, filmmakers, actors and artists at the presidential palace in…

Contemporary dance has an intimidating reputation. Those of us with little knowledge of it tend to have fixed ideas of…

ALEXANDRIA — Despite being surrounded by the ruins of neighboring businesses — book-selling kiosks identical to his own — Ibrahim…

The South Korean movie "Pieta," an ultra-violent story of a loan shark confronted by a mysterious woman claiming to be…

Ramallah has a shining international image: it has restaurants, nightclubs, culture, fun. In Joe Sacco’s pioneering graphic novel “Palestine,” all…

The State Council Administrative Court on Saturday ordered the government to take the necessary procedures to recover 179 artifacts that…

  VENICE –– “Ya Man Aach” (It Was Better Tomorrow), Hinde Boujemma’s first feature-length documentary is screened in the Proiezioni…