Culture

The opening of the 2011 Palestine Festival of Literature, popularly known as PalFest, was overshadowed this year both by the…

On Thursday night, Artellewa art space held a screening of “Arna’s Children,” a 2004 documentary by the late Juliano Mer-Khamis.…

For a property developer, Amr Qadri has been doing a lot of filming lately. Since 4 February, Qadri has established…

The Fall of the Inheritor's Gang (Konouz, 2011) by journalist Hamada Emam discusses the rise of Gamal Mubarak and the…

The State Security Investigations Service (SSIS), the body formerly responsible for domestic security in Egypt, has ostensibly been dissolved --…

The Townhouse gallery’s Popular Show -- a collection of hundreds of works by Cairo's amateurs and professionals -- may have…

For people keen on unearthing the best of Western and Arabic literature, the collection of mini-libraries and bookstores under the…

“We turn your house into a home” is the slogan of La Clé, a furniture store newly opened 

On 16 January, two days after Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned, Mohamed Tawfik drew a simple cartoon. In…

A transparent plastic tent decorated with an Egyptian flag erected over a couple of blankets is the highlight of the…