Alongside the ancient pharaoh King Tutankhamun, a display of more recent Egypt was presented in Frankfurt through the "Egyptian Festival of Culture." As part of the literary program at the fest, excerpts from four emerging Egyptian authors' works (...)
In September 2011, Khaled Said made an appearance on the famous Berlin Wall. This month, Egypt is once again taking its walls to Germany, this time alongside the Tutankhamun Exhibit in Frankfurt.
April 13 marked the "First Friday" in Frankfurt, (...)
He is holding something small up in his hand, "Look at the 70s." Kareem Lotfy is describing what he does when he “dubs” music; essentially he is simply playing with a sound that he likes from another time. A request to describe his music launches (...)
Assigned roles, seemingly at random, your group of five is attached via headphones to a device. In the minutes that follow, you produce a psychiatrist, an amalgam of Freud and Frankenstein, and one of you has to save the others from madness.
So (...)
It is late March in Berlin, one of those rare days when the sun is making a generous appearance, and people are out enjoying its light and warmth. Another kind of Spring is being celebrated at Theater Aufbau Kreuzberg (TAK), where co-founders of (...)
It's the perfect weather for hommos el-sham along the Nile. The Egyptian delicacy keeps you warm while music issuing from the Sawy Culture Wheel warms the heart.
They say music knows no boundaries and, we add, jazz knows even fewer. Entire (...)
Alive is how you feel at the Cairo Jazz Fest, with the music ringing loud and clear across the Nile that flows alongside Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek. Yet, the foreword on the festival brochure begins on a more somber note. Quoting German (...)
When the Arab Shorts fest first opened in December 2009 at the Goethe Institute in Egypt, it filled a void, Goethe director Gunther Hasenkamp told Daily News Egypt at the opening of Arab Shorts 2011 on Thursday.
After much ado, Goethe had decided (...)
CAIRO: The January 25 Revolution, while being a liberating experience, is also one that could very well be a traumatic one, explains psychologist and neurologist Dania Danish, and founder of Tammenny.com
“Tammenny,” meaning “Reassure Me,” is a (...)
“I often ask myself if I believe what I'm doing. Do I believe that I sing? Am I really doing this?” Maryam Saleh says, explaining her puzzling concert title. “Ana Mesh baghani” (I Don't Sing) was also the opening song at Saleh's act at Rawabet on (...)
One evening at Geneina Theater, like a many-headed Indian deity, Susheela Raman showed her many facets. Her songs are borrowed from covers of Western rock to traditions in Southern India that worship the mountain god “Muruga.” While singing her own (...)
What was Om Kolthoum like when she was young? If Nai Barghouti has already evoked a comparison with the Egyptian legend, one wonders where the 14-year-old will be in a few years time.
The shy smile with which Barghouti receives audience applause (...)
Man is the homeland, and the homeland is man.” With this humanistic slogan, Entesar Abd El Fatth, director of El-Ghouri Center for Musical Heritage opens the fourth Samaa International Festival for Sufi Music and Chanting in Cairo on Monday.
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“Man is the homeland, and the homeland is man.” With this humanistic slogan, Entesar Abd El Fatth, director of El-Ghouri Center for Musical Heritage opens the fourth Samaa International Festival for Sufi Music and Chanting in Cairo on Monday.
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Chance had it that all the stars in the first Hayy program in 2006 were female. But the success of the first program set the trend for coming years, according to Charles Akl, co-coordinator at the Al-Mawred Al Thaqafy that now organizes the yearly (...)
Jazz is one surprise after another; it is to be expected.
Dressed in a black evening dress with detached sleeves, the star, featured by the recently-formed group the Amro Salah Trio, walks on stage with an unusual accessory: her eyeglasses. But (...)
It's astonishing that stand-up comedy did not gain stage-presence in Egypt up until a few years ago. Local talents at the “Freedom of Funny” show far outstripped the highlight of visiting artist Ronnie Khalil's “Brezidential Brobosal” at Sawy (...)
Since marketing his first single when he was 15, electronic artist Neobyrd has figured out the formula. “To get signed you need to spend 40 percent [of your time] doing music, and 60 percent marketing yourself,” said the artist at the launch of his (...)
“The future of football is female,” proclaims one of the texts that tie the collection of photographs at Sawy Culture Wheel.
German photographer Claudia Wiens launched her exhibit, along with the book, titled “Shoe Size 37 – Women's Football in (...)
Phillipe Vincent pinches bits of air around the table when describing his play to Daily News Egypt. Despite what the title suggests, “An Arab in My Mirror” does not provide a reflection of one community in another, but rather several impressions of (...)
CAIRO: Tens of Egyptians gathered by the Spanish embassy on Friday to demand the extradition of businessman Hussein Salem and the return of Egyptian funds he holds there.
Salem's trial in Egypt is set to start on Aug. 3 for charges of corruption (...)
“I don't need a perfect picture,” says Qarm Qart, “I need a perfect subject. A man. A pose.” The rest “doesn't matter, because I cut it.”
Collage is Qarm's means of creating an alternative reality, of taking scissors to the ugliness of this world (...)
At 23 years of age, Ramy Essam admits “I'm very young for what happened to me.” He is possibly referring to the torture and brutality he experienced during and after the January 25 Revolution, but also to the responsibility he has come to assume as (...)
Be warned — when you ask Mashrou' Leila about their name, the Lebanese band will not give a straight answer. They're a bit tricky, and might just spin you a yarn from A Thousand and One Nights.
On their first night in Cairo, Al-Azhar Park's (...)
“I don't pretend to have very strong political positions,” singer Emel Mathlouthi, the Tunisian element in Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy's Ramadan nights last year, said. “But I try to talk about what I'm feeling: freedom.”
This year another Tunisian, (...)