Culture

Coinciding with this year's Hajj, the Muslim annual pilgrimage to Mecca, visitors to the American University in Cairo’s (AUC) Photographic…

In Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief--published in 1973 as Yawmiyyat al-Huzn al-'Adi and now available in English translation--the…

The complex of the Mevlevi Dervishes: Listening to the harmony of the cosmosA jewel of Islamic architecture, the complex of…

Ibn al-Konsol ('The Ambassador’s Son') is typical of Eid movies, which are generally vapid and superficial productions. It is a plot-less…

Twelve sphinx statues have been found near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni has announced. The…

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…