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Four steps to buying and caring for your Christmas Poinsettia

Four steps to buying and caring for your Christmas Poinsettia

Whether or not you are buying a tree this year, Christmas time is always a little more festive with poinsettias…
Book Review: A novel of betrayal

Book Review: A novel of betrayal

At the 2010 Naguib Mahfouz Medal ceremony, AUC Press Director Mark Linz produced a freshly printed copy of Amina Zaydan’s…
Off Biennale: Intimacy between strangers

Off Biennale: Intimacy between strangers

Several flights up a dark stairwell waits the Contemporary Image Collective’s (CIC) current show, a solo exhibition from Egyptian artist…
Culture Minister: Museum of Civilization to open doors next September

Culture Minister: Museum of Civilization to open doors next September

President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate Egypt's new Museum of Civilization in September of next year, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni…
Off Biennale: ‘Beware of the Chili’ has no sting

Off Biennale: ‘Beware of the Chili’ has no sting

Egyptian painter Hany Rashed has undergone many stylistic shifts throughout his career, displaying a kind of risk-taking curiosity that has…
Opera House announces 2010 Christmas concerts

Opera House announces 2010 Christmas concerts

The Cairo Opera House on Monday announced its special Christmas and New Year’s Eve concerts. The performances will include popular…
Alexandria’s only Jewish monument eyed for restoration

Alexandria’s only Jewish monument eyed for restoration

Authorities in Alexandria are preparing plans for the restoration of the city’s only Jewish monument. The synagogue on Nabi Daniel…
Opera House to commemorate Fareed al-Attrash

Opera House to commemorate Fareed al-Attrash

The Opera House will host three concerts in the coming week at its branches in Cairo, Alexandria and Damanhour in…
Rango: An instrument of revival

Rango: An instrument of revival

In the crammed cube that is El Mastaba Center for Egyptian Folk Music’s Tanboura Hall, audience and performers were forced…
Off Biennale: Spain meets Egypt

Off Biennale: Spain meets Egypt

The One and the Multiple, an exhibition currently at Artellewa--co-curated by Pedro Soler, director of the Barcelona center Hangar, and…
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