Culture

Egypt is home to dozens of museums, from downtown’s hugely popular Egyptian Museum to the strange and too-often overlooked  Agricultural…

While the premise behind sci-fi horror-drama "Splice" may sound like the setup to a playground joke—what do you get when…

On Monday night AUC’s Oriental Hall was packed with scholars, students and journalists for a lecture by prominent academic Joseph…

Portrait photography has long been concerned with celebrity. Early photographs aimed to capture the stature of their subjects who were…

The ultimate dilemma any critic faces when writing a movie review is, what, exactly, makes a movie good? So many…

It takes a lot of courage to perform in front of an audience of mostly strangers—a fact that, given the…

Six years after his death, scholar Edward Said is still remembered for his influential theories on imagery construction between the…

Palestine has been ever-present in the works of Radwa Ashour, but despite this she has never written a novel directly…

Funky jewelry mingled with Egyptian folklore on Friday at Unique Designs' sixteenth exhibition, a tribute to colloquial poet Salah Jahin…

In a new series called "World culture," the Al-Masry Al-Youm culture staff reviews the week’s best, worst, and biggest in…