An evening spent at the Geneina Theatre in Azhar Park is usually an evening well spent. At the very least, it's an outdoorsy outing, the rare cool breeze is always worth the effort, and performances are quite likely to be interesting.
Last week's (...)
Of the few marimba or xylophone musicians in Egypt, Nesma Abdel-Aziz is probably the best known and loved, having played with legends like Omar Khairat and Nasseer Shamma. She later went solo, performing a string of successful gigs and releasing a (...)
It being Ramadan, some people may have experienced a shift in outing venues that has left them more frequently exposed to music video channels (and their fittingly spiritual fare).
They may have consequently noticed there has been nothing new of (...)
When I arrived five minutes late to the Young Poet's Assembly currently taking place at the Rawabet Theater in downtown Cairo, I found out that I was actually half an hour early - the Ramadan schedule is in full swing.
We - the 15 or so people (...)
It was a hot, cramped and noisy night at the Rawabet Theater last Tuesday, but there was a buzz of irrepressible enthusiasm in the air - the kind you only feel with a room full of children.
Seventeen kids ascended the Rawabet stage as several (...)
