Culture

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.

Whether or not you are buying a tree this year, Christmas time is always a little more festive with poinsettias…

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

Several flights up a dark stairwell waits the Contemporary Image Collective’s (CIC) current show, a solo exhibition from Egyptian artist…

President Hosni Mubarak will inaugurate Egypt's new Museum of Civilization in September of next year, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni…

Egyptian painter Hany Rashed has undergone many stylistic shifts throughout his career, displaying a kind of risk-taking curiosity that has…

The Cairo Opera House on Monday announced its special Christmas and New Year’s Eve concerts. The performances will include popular…

Authorities in Alexandria are preparing plans for the restoration of the city’s only Jewish monument. The synagogue on Nabi Daniel…

The Opera House will host three concerts in the coming week at its branches in Cairo, Alexandria and Damanhour in…