Culture

Even in the most dismal of economies, sex sells — and Egyptian artist Nadine Hammam is good at selling it.

At this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, the most sought-after books were those about Arab revolutions. Titles about revolution, in…

Immediately following the first 18 days of the revolution, Egyptian women around the country had greater hopes that their profile…

Asghar Farhadi, the director who won Iran's first-ever Oscar for his movie "A Separation," declared on Saturday he would never…

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, the Ministry of Religious Endowments has refused to issue a permit that…

I know Mohamed Mahmoud Street quite well, albeit in more tempered times. I used to traipse back and forth down…

“I'm a young female, gambling on [people’s] imagination.” This is how the 42-year-old novelist and associate professor of English at…

As consumers become keen to buy Egyptian-made products, designers have gained confidence and several small, local fashion and textile business…

The antiquities and tourism police in Minya, Upper Egypt, seized 68 artifacts from the Greek and Roman eras from a…