Culture

In a sense, the text of a play is incomplete. It is written to be performed, more than to be…

Almost half a century after after he passed away on 12 March 1964, the family of Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad feels…

On 12 March 1964, an Egyptian cultural legend died aged 75. For decades, Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad had engaged in intellectual…

For the better part of two years, Egypt’s cultural sector has received repeated blows with the cancellation or interruption of…

The director of the film "The Jews of Egypt" film Amir Ramses has said that the National Security Agency banned…

“I’ve been watching this film for three days and I haven’t been the same,” said Moukhtar Kocache. “Walking in the…

Fourteen black granite statues of the goddess Sekhmet were found by a German mission during excavations at the temple of…

In an attempt to better understand the role of theater within the ongoing 25 January revolution, local playwright and theater…

An Egyptian independent archaeologist has warned on Friday that Antinoupolis, one of the country’s largest archaeological sites located in Minya,…

On 3 March 1978, Egyptian literary pioneer Tawfiq al-Hakim wrote in state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, “Arabs now have money and men.…