Journalists, NGO workers and adventurers setting out to work and travel in the region's newly minted conflict zones can add a new weapon to their arsenal of survival gear: “How to Avoid Being Killed in a War Zone,” a survival guide for conflict (...)
Talk about great timing. Abu Dhabi-based Twofour54 couldn't have picked a better moment to partner with international film festival concept Tropfest to create Tropfest Arabia 2011, a short film festival for aspiring filmmakers from the (...)
Ballet can now be counted amongst the artistic disciplines touched by Egypt's recent revolution. The January 25 Revolution has prompted a wave of cultural production, much of it inspired by scenes and experiences from the lead up to Hosni Mubarak's (...)
Egypt's revolution was the catalyst for an outpouring of artistic inspiration by local and foreign artists alike. Two current exhibitions in Cairo capture the spirit of the post-revolutionary artistic scene.
Egyptian artist Farid Fadel's “Here is (...)
Local interest in Turkish culture has grown steadily in recent years, prompted in large part by the popularity of dubbed Turkish soap operas such as Nour on satellite television. The Turkish government's increasingly Middle East-focused political (...)
Like many on the local creative scene, the team at Eklego, an innovative Cairo-based interior design, furniture and architecture firm best-known for their work on the SODIC sales center, has found the spirit of the January 25 Revolution an (...)
Amr Bayoumi's film about Egyptian poet and political activist Scren Grap of Zein Elabidin Fouad., “Who Can Arrest Egypt?” was screened last night at the Cairo Opera's Artistic Creativity Center.
The 50-minute documentary, filmed in 2009 and (...)
Graphic arts enthusiasts flocked to the French Cultural Center in Mounira on Sunday evening to celebrate the launch of the second issue of TokTok, Egypt's breakout graphic arts magazine.
The well-organized and attended event featured a signing (...)
Linda Cleary is in Cairo for the long haul. A native of Manchester, England, the poet, writer and artist visited Cairo five times before taking up residence in Dokki 15 months ago. From her first visit, Cleary has become a fixture in local arts (...)
Lauded for his novels, infamous for his sometimes caustic, often overtly political writings, things are never dull with Alaa Al-Aswany — especially when so-called tyrants and hypocrites are involved.
Until recently, English readers had access to (...)
Saudi Arabia's cutting edge art collaborative, Edge of Arabia, opened its first major UAE exhibition last Monday. Terminal, a pop-up exhibition curated by Bashar Al Shroogi of Dubai's Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, is on at the Dubai International (...)
The third Cairo Documentary Festival kicked off on Sunday evening the American University in Cairo's Ewart Hall, with an impressive schedule of documentary films by local and international directors under the themes of “Egypt Rising” and (...)
Recent studies on reading in the Arab world have shown a drastic decline in those picking up books and newspapers in their free time, and Egyptians, young people in particular, have frequently come out near the bottom in Arab readership (...)
The Jan. 25 Revolution made artists out of many, especially those who brought a camera along. Just weeks on, some of these photographs have been collected in an outstanding exhibition at the Cairo Opera House Art Gallery.
Organized in just a week (...)
Creativity and culture in Cairo managed to thrive in spite of the repressive atmosphere that reigned before recent events opened a new chapter in Egypt's history. Post-revolution cultural life is a blank page, ready to be filled with expression (...)
In an old factory in the underprivileged neighborhood of Ard El-Lewa, Shady El-Noshokaty is building a space for local art students to continue learning and growing as artists after graduation.
The former Biennale winner and famed painter turned (...)
The Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF) is set to open Saturday, Jan. 29, with a packed schedule of events in honor of China and the centenary of the late Nobel laureate Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.
Originally scheduled to begin on (...)
In a city where taste is contagious, the relationship between art and interior design is fraught with issues of authenticity, originality and, most importantly for the designers themselves, harmony.
Local interior designers are both aestheticians (...)
The Cinéma du Réel documentary film festival kicked off on Sunday evening at the French Cultural Center (CFCC) in Mounira with a line-up of documentaries on diverse subjects ranging from Palestine to the school infirmary.
Cinéma du Réel is an (...)
It's befitting that the Arab world's first trilingual comic book is the brainchild of a group of four well-traveled and cosmopolitan Beiruti, the city that has become the region's colorful capital of innovation.
Samandal, or Salamander in (...)
In the isolated Beirut neighborhood of Karatina, the Sfeir-Semler Gallery occupies a space apart — both literally and metaphorically. As one of Beirut's most successful and prestigious commercial galleries exhibiting work by some of the region's (...)
Designopolis is the capital's latest and biggest retail outlet. But at this new art and design hub, it's more about art than money — a philosophy that shows in the numbers.
The new space has some of the lowest retail-space rents in the city; (...)
Designopolis was envisioned as an open, creative environment where anyone can come to spend the day enjoying galleries and restaurants, participating in a workshop, browsing in the on-site libraries, and, of course, doing some shopping.
Workshops (...)
As the inauguration of the 2011 Cairo International Book Fair approaches, getting up to speed on this year's top Arabic novels, many of which have been translated into English, is imperative. The shortlist for this year's International Prize for (...)
A lways closely associated with ancient art and artefacts, Egypt's vibrant modern art scene is consistently overshadowed by imposing monuments from the past.
The recent record-breaking auction of works by modern Egyptian artist Mahmoud Said has, (...)