THE candles the people held shattered the darkness of that night in the German capital Berlin.
Thousands of people walked past their divided history and called for unification.
Their voices were not audible in this picture, but the features of (...)
Numerous paintings, various artistic trends and affordable prices are what make the Shadicor Art Gallery, in Heliopolis, northeastern Cairo, which opened 11 years ago, so popular.
‘Art for All Families', an exhibition which opened at the gallery (...)
HIS love for children prompted him to make a movie for them. He travelled thousands of miles to bring this movie to the 20th edition of the Cairo Children's Film Festival, which ended on Thursday.
Having completed his last three movies, How to keep (...)
LAST Wednesday wasn't an ordinary day in El-Gezira Art Centre in Zamalek; the atmosphere was festive, with a group of Egyptian artists launching a large exhibition there in the presence of Mohsen Shaalan, the head of the Fine Arts Sector, who (...)
THE sun, a red flower, Egypt's flag, and a very simple sentence, reading "It's my right to be a child" over a small white wooden board, were all that Mahmoud drew.
Mahmoud is one of many children who live in this country's non-governmental (...)
When Saad Shoukri visits a petrol station, the thing that he does almost two or three times a day, he delves deep in thought about the subsidy system in Egypt.
The 53-year-old taxi driver might have coughed out almost treble the amount of money he (...)
THE workers of the Tanta Company for Flax and Oils continued to stage their sit-in outside the Cabinet building in central Cairo Wednesday for the 10th day in a row and swore to continue picketing until their problems are solved.
Tens of the (...)
EGYPT'S Minister of Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mufied Shehab on Thursday played down reports about the presence of sectarian strife in Egypt, saying sporadic clashes between Muslims and Christians were about isolated actions that should not be (...)
IN front of shelves carrying hundreds of titles, Ahmed Hosni found himself in extreme perplexity.
The 21-year-old engineering student could not determine which of the hundreds of books, arrayed in order in front of him, he should buy.
He finally (...)
While Hamdi Ibrahim has a degree in tourism and hotel management, none of Egypt's many hotels and tourist villages has offered him a job. Despite all his efforts, five years after his graduation he is a parking attendant.
He helps car owners - most (...)
SAMIR Rafie, an Egyptian pioneer in modern art, died years ago. But his works bear witness to an exceptionally innovative talent.
This talent was the talk of many people in the opening of Rafie's latest gallery, which started on January 24 at the (...)
Months before the next parliamentary elections and one and a half year before the presidential elections, many seem to be busy thinking of how best every body could be engaged.
It is Egyptians living abroad who are taking centre stage in discussions (...)
VISITORS of the Egyptian Opera House expected Tuesday to be like every other day.
But this turned out to be a mere illusion with Licia Galizia's musical studio.
Galizia, an Italian artist, has brought to Egypt for the first time her Studio III su (...)
THERE was something strange about the fat woman sitting on the floor and washing her clothes.
Her orange attire and the wide container in which she put the water and the cloth seemed as if they had just got out of one of the homes of Egypt and into (...)