Culture

Zahrat al-Bustan (The Garden Flower, Merit 2010), by Khaled Ismail, the most prodigious writer of his generation, shares its name…

Etr Qadeem (An Old Scent) is novelist Gar el-Nabi el-Helw's tenth book. Melancholic and nostalgic, this novel touches upon the…

Ibrahim El Abyad--Ahmed Sakka’s latest action/violence flick--has rendered strong but pretty uniform reactions.

The 16th annual National Film Festival commenced on 23 April at the Cairo Opera Opera House, showcasing the past year's…

Over the past 30 years, American novelist Nelson DeMille has written 15 novels all of which were best sellers and…

In his seminal work Madness Explained, Richard Bentall suggests that through studying serious mental illness, namely psychosis, one taps into…

The latest collection of 19 poems titled La Shayaa Yadol ("Nothing Tells") from the late poet Mohamed Saleh was only…

Yemen: Dancing on the Heads of Snakes by Victoria Clark (Yale, 2010) 

Tahani Rached's latest film Giran (Neighbors) is a piercing dissection of the community of Garden City and an examination of…

Emad Ismail is a young, talented actor who began his career right after finishing law school in 1999. Since then,…