Culture

  Nobody feels the joy of the Eid as much as children, and when we were children, we could hardly…

Two films about Egypt’s second president - “Nasser 56” (a 1996 Egyptian production) and “Gamal Abdel Nasser” (a 1999 Syrian…

A number of books that were published decades before the 2011 revolution seem to speak directly to Egypt’s current situation.…

“To pick my name... I was told my father opened a random page in the holy Koran and moved his…

Thirteenth century Sufi preacher and poet Jalal Eddin al-Rumi praised Samaa - sessions devoted to listening to dhikr (which means "rememberance") music, often…

As Muammar Qadhafi’s four-decade dictatorship comes to an end, Libyan authors have been sharing their joy and relief online, anticipating…

Describing itself as 100 percent "Made in Egypt," Al-Qahira is a homegrown interior accessories store where each item demonstrates excellent…

Inji Aflatoun is a painter whose art is difficult to separate from her politics. But Aflatoun’s ideology and fighting spirit…

For eight consecutive nights, the courtyard of Al-Ghouri Dome in Islamic Cairo has been packed full as the fourth edition…

Egyptian cinema icon Kamal al-Shennawy died early Monday at the age of 89.  Shennawy acted in more than 200 films…