Culture

On Saturday at 12 noon, the jury of the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale - entitled ILLUMInations - announced…

For many years, the field of Arabic-English translation was dominated by a very few. Denys Johnson-Davies, who Edward Said called…

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is an ambitious project with a vast cornucopia of programs and resources. It was founded as a…

The 54th Venice Biennale opens Saturday with Egyptian artist, writer and musician Hassan Khan heading the jury that will award…

There has been much debate in the past week about a film and television series on the life of Muslim…

In Abla al-Roweiny’s first editorial in Akhbar al-Adab, Egypt’s weekly literary journal, she writes about a different “space” that is…

Although the Khaled Saeed case was covered by Egyptian newspapers, it was the post mortem photo of his maimed corpse…

On 28 May, Al-Jazeera aired “Hadret al-Zabet” (Mr Police Officer) – the first documentary film to tell the story of…

Soviet Bloc animation is famous for its visual experimentation, and on Sunday evening, the Visegrad Film Festival - hosted by…

At a mid-May symposium at the American University in Cairo, students from “Translating the Revolution” class of Samia Mehrez -…