Prior to attending the Monistra Band's performance at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's First Alexandrina World Music Festival, traditional, or for that matter any, Macedonian music was something of a mystery to me. But as I left the auditorium there (...)
The concept was sound: two heavyweights of Euro-Arab music, Maria Del Mar Bonet of Spain and Egypt's favorite son, Mohamed Mounir, collaborating on stage in the name of intercultural dialogue.
In a show of unity between three of the region's (...)
Fifteen Sesostris Street, Downtown Alexandria may appear as an unlikely location for a dance center. Smack in the heart of the city's financial district, it is more accustomed to pinstripe than pirouettes.
This and many more obstacles were (...)
Mahmoud Aboudoma is the definition of calm. As his busy staff frantically circles him, pushing papers and phones in his direction, the director of the Creative Forum for Independent Theater Groups happily answers questions, breaking his stride only (...)
In the exhibition hall of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's conference center is a truly exceptional exhibition of Post-Byzantine art. Vivid icons of Christ, the Virgin Mary and other central Biblical figures are displayed in bold colors accompanied by (...)
It seems jazz concerts in Egypt are like buses, you wait an age for one and then they all come at once. Those lucky enough to be present in the Jesuit Center, Alexandria, were given an insight into contemporary jazz at its very best by the highly (...)
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is taking time out on the roof of the Windsor Palace rooftop garden watching fisherman toil in the murky waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor to explain the origins of her latest exhibition.
She is a busy woman and her (...)