Culture

For the last 30 years, Le Marché has been the leading furniture and interior design fair in Egypt. Year after…

Every time an Egyptian woman leaves her house she must make a lot of calculations. What should she wear? Are…

Marriage is no easy ride--this is May Taher’s message in her latest book, “When the Honeymoon is Over.” The collection…

Since the “Why Not?” show in February-March of this year, it has almost become a convention to see exhibitions at…

This year’s International Forum for the Arab Novel, the fifth in Cairo, asked as its central question, “The Arab Novel:…

Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Kouny, born in Ghadames, Libya in 1948, received on Wednesday the 2010 Arab Novel award from the…

When the word “modern” was used in Egypt to refer to Mohamed Ali’s rule (1805-1948), agriculture was at the heart…

As the International Forum for Arab Novel Creativity is nearing an end, prominent novelist Alaa Al-Aswany voices incendiary criticism of…

"Women's stories haven't yet been told,” said Afaf Alsayed, an Egyptian novelist and feminist who advocates for a more radical…

Progress can be a messy thing. Take, for example, the Tower of Babel. According to the story, humankind, united after…