While most people associate Andalusia with Spain, an important stretch of what was once the northernmost part of the Arab World was also located in what is today's Portugal. Though Arab rule extended even to the north of Portugal past Lisbon (Lisbun (...)
Spanning three continents and two cultures, as well as two disciplines, the work of Swiss-Egyptian artist Karim Noureldin is increasingly receiving the attention it deserves.
This year the Swiss private banking group Julius Baer asked him to work on (...)
From the calligraphy-rich Sufi-inspired works of Algerian Rachid Koraïchi to the sombre work of Palestinian Samah Shihadi, the 2018 edition of Art Dubai offered art buyers and aficionados a wide range of artistic expression from the Middle East and (...)
Despite finding himself in the last place at the start, Arrogate somehow surged to the front on the final stretch. With a crowd of some 50,000 cheering, the horse ran home for a convincing win this past Saturday at the Dubai World Cup.
With the win (...)
For a week Alexandria's Ahmed Morsi had two solo shows in the United Arab Emirates. Not only is the Egyptian modernist a solo show at Sharjah—which is ongoing—this week he is also featured at Art Dubai, which runs until 18 March. The Gypsum Gallery (...)
As President Barrack Obama hailed the “Arab Spring” from Washington, Egyptian security forces moved to take control of the poor Cairo suburb of Ain Shams, where a group of Coptic Christians and Muslim extremists clashed earlier in the day. The (...)
Forty years ago, Quentin Tarantino was just a young boy; the future great director was taken to a showing of Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch. Set in 1913, the neo-western classic tells the story of a band of misogynistic and violent outlaws riding (...)
Arguably the best Shwarma in the Middle East is located on a random traffic circle in Amman, Jordan
Ask anyone who has spent some time in Amman about Restaurant Al-Reem Karam and watch their eyes light up as they describe the best shwarma Jordan (...)
It was a September much like this one nearly 800 years ago, during which a most curious meeting took place between two illustrious figures in world history: Francis de Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, and Al-Malik Al-Kamel Naser Al-Din, the (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's world ranking has improved a dramatic 11 places. Unfortunately for football fans, Egypt's dramatic rise was in the World Economic Forum's "World Competitiveness Report 2009/2010 and not the recent FIFA rankings.
Egypt is now ranked (...)
What would you do with $200,000 and six months to go? That is the question currently facing Egyptian artist Hala El-Koussy after receiving the Abraaj Capital Art Prize.
El-Koussy - co-founder of the Cairo-based art center Contemporary Image (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian football team's not the only Egyptian national to log an important qualification win. Prior to Egypt's sneaky 1-0 win in Rwanda on Saturday, the Egyptian national volleyball team logged an important win over Iran at the Cairo (...)
Nov. 21, 1989 was the day Giza acquired a new sister: it was the day that Giza was paired with Los Angeles.
Sister cities or city-twinning is a political program launched by ambitious mayoral offices who want to promote ties between two cities. (...)
CAIRO: The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) issued a statement Monday condemning the government's banning of "Hokouma Show (Government Show), a television program scheduled to run on the Nile Comedy channel.
ANHRI called the (...)
CAIRO: It seems that 1982 was the year of the Iron Ladies.
Britain's "Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher launched a war over the Falkland Islands and Egypt's "Iron Lady Hoda Abdel-Moneim received a passport which eventually allowed her to flee charges (...)
CAIRO: A week after their historic summit President Hosni Mubarak returned to Egypt and US President Barack Obama is vacationing on a small island in New England. The world is left to wonder what the effect of their meeting will have on the Middle (...)
CAIRO: In an article critical of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni's campaign to be the next director general of UNESCO, the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine added fuel to the fire raised against Hosni's candidacy.
A link reading "the racist (...)
CAIRO: Though most major American media outlets were hesitant to signal any specific outcomes from the Obama-Mubarak meeting, the overall tone was positive.
President Hosni Mubarak met his American counterpart Barack Obama last Tuesday in (...)
CAIRO: While most of the distinguished speakers chose to open with pleasantries, Saeed El-Masry, a distinguished human rights scholar, chose an unusual approach to illustrate human rights problems in Egypt.
At the "Final Forum for International (...)
CAIRO: Days after 34 Egyptian fishermen overpowered their Somali pirates captors, versions of their escape differ, with one indicating that coordination efforts with other Somali tribes helped set the Egyptians free.
Egyptian Deputy Foreign (...)
CAIRO: Two seconds and a flick of the wrist was all Libya's Raid Fareed needed to dash Egypt's hope of advancing past the first round in the 2009 FIBA African basketball championship. Only moments before it had appeared the Egyptians had the (...)
CAIRO: As tensions in the caucus run high, the new Georgian Ambassador to Egypt Gocha Japaridze held a press conference to reflect on the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia and to deplore the current situation.
"Unfortunately we were (...)
CAIRO: Samir El-Naggar, chief of the Agriculture Export Council, denied recent reports of a ban on the export of Egyptian potatoes to the European Union (EU).
"There is no ban. There has been a mistake. First, only four incidents of brown rot (...)
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak will visit the US Aug. 18 to meet with President Barack Obama in lieu of the visit he was due to make last May, it was announced.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said in a statement Monday that Mubarak and Obama (...)