Culture

During this tumultuous period in Egypt’s sectarian relations, some have offered a cultural venue to begin alleviating the tensions that…

Acclaimed filmmaker Dawoud Abdel Sayed returns after an eight-year absence with "Rasa'il el-Bahr" (Messages from the Sea), the story of…

“I reject style--only emotions matter,” says prominent Egyptian painter Adel El Siwi. Nominated by Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to represent…

Luis Javier is the director of the two branches of the Instituto Cervantes Spanish cultural centers in Egypt. He is…

A week ago, an informal group of Egyptian train lovers attempted to bring the deteriorating state of a railway museum…

American cartoonist Joe Sacco has more or less invented a new category of reporting: graphic journalism--"graphic" in both senses of…

“People have become behavior freaks and, in the process, have lost their humanity,” laments 32-year-old artist Shirine Mahmud during her…

Establishments like the Cairo Jazz Club have their own natural rhythm. The heart of the evening at this venerable nightspot…

Sukun Troupe only played one concert, but the band--more of an experimental music project--made a splash. Sukun featured Ismail Fawzi,…

Jeffrey Herf, professor of modern European history at the University of Maryland, College Park, recently authored Nazi Propaganda for the…