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Cinema Culture Center puts Iran’s female filmmakers in spotlight

Cinema Culture Center puts Iran’s female filmmakers in spotlight

Downtown's Cinema Culture Center celebrated International Woman's Day this month by screening five films by female filmmakers from the Iranian…
Photography exhibition: Ashraf Talaat

Photography exhibition: Ashraf Talaat

Ashraf Talaat's exhibition of photographs, Point of view, opened Sunday night at El Sawy Cultural Wheel in Zamalek. Al-Masry Al-Youm…
Palestinian director: We have the spirit, directors, and lots of stories

Palestinian director: We have the spirit, directors, and lots of stories

Sunday night marked the premier of Palestinian film Al mur wal rumman (Pomegranates and Myrrh, 2008) in Egyptian movie theaters.The…
Oxmo Puccino: French rap at El Sawy Culture Wheel

Oxmo Puccino: French rap at El Sawy Culture Wheel

Oxmo Puccino is a French rapper of Malian origin who received a Victoires de la Musique award at the beginning…
Noémie, tell me a story!

Noémie, tell me a story!

The French Cultural Center in Mounira yesterday evening welcomed Belgian comedian Noémie Dujardin, who read excerpts from novels in the…
Ambassadors of the azan

Ambassadors of the azan

The lights go down, and the audience falls quiet. But instead of actors taking their place on the stage in…
Dance that transforms loss and meaning

Dance that transforms loss and meaning

At the American University in Cairo (AUC) this week, the Magda al-Nowaihi Graduate Student Award in Gender Studies went to…
9/11 prompts a flood of books on the Middle East

9/11 prompts a flood of books on the Middle East

The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 have reshaped the world, not in terms of geography, but rather in terms…
Eftekasat: Oriental jazz fusion

Eftekasat: Oriental jazz fusion

Eftekasat, an Egyptian jazz band founded in 2001 by pianist and composer Amr Salah, performed yesterday at the closing ceremony…
Homegrown jazz: El-Sharkawy Group

Homegrown jazz: El-Sharkawy Group

Cairo's second International Jazz Festival brought together some of Egypt's best jazz bands as well as groups from eight other…
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