A delegation of high-level UK officials are in Cairo this week to discuss the return of assets obtained illegally by figures associated with the former Mubarak regime.
The UK's delegation is led by Jeremy Browne MP, Minister of State for Crime (...)
An Australian journalist under investigation by the Egyptian authorities says he is getting little support from his country's foreign minister. Austin Mackell believes his arrest in February, in the factory town of Mahalla, was based on patently (...)
“If I Weren't Egyptian” is a play about a young man who wants to emigrate to Italy, a middle aged German-speaking belly-dancer, a silent old gentleman who has water dripping from his trousers, and a giant robotic orange clownfish.
This (...)
Commissioned by UN Women to make a film about women in Egypt, Hanan Abdalla felt the need to tell a story with “a sense of responsibility to two worlds.” It is most important that such a film would speak accurately to an Egyptian audience, but it (...)
“Gasping” is none too subtle but easily enjoyable satire on unbridled corporate greed, which is now coming to the end of its second run at the Rawabet Theatre in downtown Cairo. If you can catch its last night — and aren't easily offended by (...)
Sometime around 1965, two glamorous Europeans paced through the airport of Niamey, capital of Niger. The man was laden with baggage, while the woman strode ahead toward the waiting photographer, Philipe Koudjina.
Koudjina, then 25, would roam the (...)
“Ard El-Lewa no good” asserts my taxi driver grumpily, as I give him directions to the gallery. “Bad area.”
In fact, there is nothing bad about it, though no doubt life is harder for those who live in its overcrowded apartments than for residents (...)
In the 19th century, the international order of power and commerce rested on the sea: the vast merchant navy and the gunboats of the British Empire. In the 20th century, power gradually passed to the skies, as air-power gradually became the defining (...)