Culture

“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…

A Survival Guide, currently on display at the American University in Cairo’s Sharjah Art Gallery, pinpoints the components of life…

For the second year in a row, singer Mohamed Monier will not be performing at planned New Year’s festivities, as…

In the mid 1940s, when prominent (though untalented) Egyptian actor Anwar Wagdy openly bragged to journalists about the famous actresses…

A year ago, Cairo’s Agriculture Museum was only a Lonely Planet suggestion for Spanish artist Asunción Molinos.