Culture

The trailer for Basra, an independent movie screened at the 2008 Cairo International Film Festival and showing at cinemas this Eid,…

Despite constant talk about a "movie industry crisis," in terms of gender, the reality is that Egyptian cinema today has…

Mash-up concerts are quite tricky. As they present different performances, there needs to be cohesion. Otherwise, disconnected performances resemble a…

It took them several months to renovate the rundown building in Downtown Zurich into the fancy Design hotel. Greulich (Horrible),…

Last Eid, this reviewer stumbled out of übercrass ‘comedy’ Welad al-Balad dazed, confused, and desperately trying to comprehend how one…

While doing archival research on 19th century Egypt and the intricacies of the foundation of a modern state, historian Khaled…

Taha Hussein (1889- 1973), the most prominent intellectual in twentieth century Egypt, was regularly accused by ultra-nationalists and Islamists as…

Memory loss seems to be this Eid’s theme with a number of movies already in the cinemas and a few…

“Our society annihilates us in a thousand ways on a daily basis, so we learn gradually how to get our…

London is a city bursting with artifacts and relics of Ancient Egypt, from Cleopatra’s Needle on the bank of the…