Culture

"The Forgotten Ones" (Morocco). An acclaimed film that received many awards worldwide, "The Forgotten Ones," from writer-director Hassan Benjelloun, tackles…

“Moqtanayat Wust el-Balad” (Downtown Collection) by Mekkawi Said. This collection of short stories from the award-winning author of “Swan song”…

In spite of some of its darker offerings--oil paintings of ghostly figures, photos of gutted Cairo landmarks, a large work…

Cats love science. They noticeably outnumbered the human visitors at the Suzanne Mubarak Science Exploration Center, even on what employees…

“Stealth,” by Sonallah Ibrahim, trans. Hosam Aboul-ela. “Stealth” is perhaps the warmest and most emotionally charged work produced by Ibrahim,…

For the entire month of February 2010, an air conditioning unit was fixed to the Palace of the Arts’ façade,…

Most Egyptians have never heard Ancient Egyptian music, a 5,000-year-old art form that has nearly disappeared. But in 2000 a…

A lot happened on the Cairo cultural scene in 2010. Here, presented in no particular order, are some of the…

The 1889 Paris World Exhibition included an Egyptian exhibit built by the French to represent a street of medieval Cairo.…

It’s easy to forget just how ahead of its time the first “Tron” movie was. In 1982, the movie’s light…