Culture

“To exist is to resist”—a theme heavily echoed throughout William Parry’s provocative book, “Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance…

The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) has accused seven film companies of imposing restrictions on distribution. On May 19, the authority…

The energy on stage at al-Genina theatre in Al-Azhar park last Thursday night was in attack mode for the opening…

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

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…