Culture

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…

A heated debate followed the screening of Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi’s “Zindeeq” Sunday night at the Galaxy cinema where the…

Last Saturday, an evening of storytelling was held by the Ana al-Hekaya (I Am the Story) group at the American…

On Friday, Cairo has its first Young Leaders Social Media Café, a meeting of the leaders of the new digital…

Etgawezni Shokran (Marry Me…Thank you); a short book by Omnia Fawzy was launched on 4 November with a  book signing…

French scholar and renowned translator of Arabic literature Richard Jaquemond spoke on Wednesday night at the American University in Cairo…