In one of the photographs presented by Christopher Naunton in his lecture at the British Council on Monday evening, clouds of dust hang over dozens of Egyptian laborers, digging in the brutal heat to excavate artifacts left behind by their ancestors (...)
On Saturday evening, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra began their regular season concert with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Overture to The Impresario. Conductor Andreas Spörri led the orchestra through a short, light overture in C Major, which Mozart (...)
I did not fully appreciate novelist Ahdaf Soueif's new memoir “Cairo: My City, Our Revolution” until I read portions of the text out loud. Some of Soueif's longer sentences are scarcely readable in one breath, and only when you try to squeeze them (...)
Wednesday Wagbas, a new initiative at the Townhouse Gallery, is aiming to give funding to artists for new projects at a time of increasing uncertainty in the Egyptian visual art scene.
The idea is to raise funds through public dinners by allowing (...)
Driving east or west out of Cairo, one used to observe endless desert, broken only by a few sleepy settlements and austere power lines. But in the past few decades, endless stretches of apartments and mini-palaces have sprung up, sometimes seemingly (...)
On Thursday night, the US Embassy presented a concert featuring collaboration between Nubian Drums, one of the many musical heritage projects of Islamic Cairo mainstay Intissar Abdel-Fattah, and the Bombie Trio, a band from the US advertised as jazz (...)
For the past fourteen years, the American University in Cairo Press has given the Naguib Mahfouz medal, named for Egypt's most internationally known novelist, to a younger talent, to “recognize an outstanding contribution to Arabic writing.”
This (...)
On Nov. 24, Egyptian novelist Khaled Alkhamissi read excerpts from his bestselling novel “Taxi” to an audience in Frankfurt as part of the “Festival of Egyptian Culture.”
“Taxi” is Alkhamissi's 2006 debut novel, which gave him a sense of (...)
CAIRO: Economic inequality is on the rise worldwide — the rich are richer than ever before and their distance from the poor is greater — yet the character of that inequality is changing, according to Branko Milanovic, an economist at the World (...)
CAIRO: US Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry expressed confidence and support for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' oversight of Egypt's political transition and called for a focus on saving the Egyptian (...)
CAIRO: While local monitoring groups focused on violations by specific parties, candidates and judicial monitors during the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, the Carter Center said the process was "largely peaceful."
It added that (...)
CAIRO: Despite reports of some violations by local monitoring groups, the Carter Center believes it is "too soon to tell" whether abuses in the electoral process are widespread, according to Ebie Dupont, deputy field office director for the (...)
On Sunday, in a small white box of a room, stark images of the recent revolutionary battles in Libya hung on panels surrounding a large Libyan flag with gold fringe. A TV replayed major news stories from the last year, and students gazed at photos (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian consumers are more likely to save money by buying value packages or buying goods on sale, according to the latest survey by Nielsen.
These strategies were more popular among respondents of the internet survey than shopping at (...)
CAIRO: Judicial monitoring is not enough to ensure free and fair elections, according to several experts, who called upon voters to monitor the elections themselves.
Speaking Sunday at a Tahrir Dialogues event at the downtown campus of the (...)
In the wave of recent photography books from AUC press about the revolution, the automatic tendency is to celebrate the actions of Egyptians usually referred to as “everyday” or “ordinary” Egyptians, and, similarly, “the Egyptian street.”
Books (...)
Last Sunday the Jordanian jazz bassist Yacoub Abu Ghosh led his band through a set at the Cairo Jazz Club, a seemingly required stop on any local tour. Despite the holiday, the dark, smoky room had nearly reached capacity when the band, which (...)
CAIRO: Egypt ranked 113 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index presented by the 2011 Human Development Report Wednesday, slipping 12 spots from its 101 ranking in 2010.
However, the report points out that this does not indicate a (...)
CAIRO: There is a reason more street vendors are seen throughout Egypt these days.
Since January, Egypt's economy has seen a rise in its informal sector, which comprises businesses that operate without oversight or support.
Many members of the (...)
In the Arab world, youth are a constant hot topic in political and economic policies and discussion. As the world population officially reaches 7 billion this week, children make up the vast majority and are widely celebrated as “the future.”
But (...)
CAIRO: With the world's population projected to have reached seven billion this month, a report found that additional investments in youth and reinforcing equality between men and women are essential in determining the future.
The State of World (...)
CAIRO: Although it is too late for full international observation of the upcoming parliamentary elections, some international organizations are preparing to support the country's first elections since the ousting of president Hosni Mubarak with (...)
Thursday night, in the stark warehouse space of the Townhouse Gallery, a small crowd of young men and women stood around drinking soda and smoking cigarettes. Many wore track jackets and oversized baseball caps, baggy clothes and Adidas shoes. Some (...)
CAIRO: Part of a newly announced economic aid package the UK has promised Egypt will go into ensuring balanced media coverage during the elections, the UK Deputy Prime Minister said Thursday.
The aid to media organizations will come from a larger (...)
Although now widely considered Egypt's literary ambassador to the world, Naguib Mahfouz was relatively unknown outside of Egypt until 1988, the year he won the Nobel Prize.
Speaking in Cairo this week, Sture Allén, a professor of computational (...)