Culture

On the last night of Ramadan, my brother and I would anxiously wait for Eid, when we would get to…

  A family’s strongman in an Upper Egyptian village sits confidently home as he receives congratulations for his marriage to…

With the beats of the karakeb (large metal castanets) and the clap of their hands, Moroccan artists Mahdi Nassouli and…

For decades, the highpoint of Ramadan’s drama had been a serial about an idealistic middle class character who strives to…

“I don’t mean to say that I am more intelligent than he, or that I see things he is incapable…

In the world of underground music, electro-pop singer Yasmine Hamdan is known for Soapkills, the duo she started with Zeid…

The story of Tahiya Carioca (1919–1999) is that of modern belly dance. Om Kalthoum once described her as an artist…

  When Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik first launched his hit horror book series “Ma Waraa al-Tabee’a” (Beyond The Natural…

Hashem al-Garhy is more than your average comedian. He is an entrepreneur dedicated to developing the art of comedy in…

An increasing awareness of Egypt's photographic heritage may be damaging that very legacy, as flawed archiving systems benefit those in…