Culture

1) Radwa Ashour's Specters, trans. Barbara Romaine Radwa Ashour's half-memoir, half-novel Specters, published in 1999, is about many people, places…

Throughout the past 18 days, Al-Masry Al-Youm has documented Egypt's revolution as it unfolded on the walls of the city.…

Although art is generally perceived as an exclusive discipline with limited outreach, Egyptian curator Sarah Rifky argues that the boundaries…

Those who have witnessed recent Cairo protests know firsthand just how loud they can get. But as protesters continue to…

The past two weeks have seen Cairo’s Tahrir Square filled by mass protests and scarred by violence. Much of the…

The Tunisian revolution is less than two weeks old, and the country, despite the hasty creation of a transition government,…

Literature has always been fascinated with politics, power and the police, and Egyptian literature is no exception. Police officers have…

There are two possible entrances to the National Military Museum. The first is a wide marble walkway, bisected by an…

Egypt has submitted an official request to Germany to return a bust of Nefertiti displayed in a Berlin Museum, following…

Saturday marked the opening of Designopolis’s new gallery, Tache. Founders Taya El Zayad and Cherine Badrawy have developed the space…