Culture

Eighty-seven-year-old Herbert Vogel and his wife Dorothy are a retired post office clerk and librarian with a massive collection of…

Despite a growing presence of independent and non-governmental cultural centers, art spaces, bands and theater troupes, the Egyptian Ministry of…

Hala Imam graduated with a bachelor's degree in Costume and Set Design. She went on to study modern dance at…

“Back Down Mubarak!” is in essence what millions of protestors have been chanting in a unified voice for the 18…

In 1988, a team of 15 explorers descended approximately 80 kilometers into a gigantic and elaborate network of uncharted caves…

Ever since Egyptians took to the streets on 25 January to overthrow the Hosni Mubarak regime, people have tried to…

“The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin,” wrote the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs Jean-François Champollion when he came…

There’s music you can dance to, and there’s music you can unwind to. And then there’s music you actually need…

On Sunday evening, a crowd of about one hundred expatriates, foreign journalists and Anglophone Egyptians congregated between the bookshelves of…

On 6 February, as Tahrir Square resonated with freedom chants and democracy demands, the French-Lebanese poet and novelist Andree Chedid…