LONDON - For 14 nights, Hassan Khan and Nida Ghouse sit down in conversation to explore the back catalogue, artistic past and present, and distant memories of musician, writer and artist Hassan Khan. In the intimate setting of the Delfina Foundation (...)
LONDON – Dozens of tents remain pitched outside St. Paul's Cathedral in the heart of London's financial district on Sunday, as protesters continue their occupation of the London Stock Exchange overnight. According to protesters, the Dean of St. (...)
LONDON - Over the past week, London's Institute of Contemporary Arts hosted the “Winds of Change: Cinema from Muslim Societies” festival, using the Arab Spring as the starting point for selected films.
At first glance, this is hard to fathom as only (...)
LONDON - In the shadow of central London landmark Marble Arch, around 50 protesters gathered on Saturday in support of the mass demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, calling for an end to military trials for civilians among other (...)
London -- As NATO bombs continue to rain down on suspected pro-Qadhafi targets in Misrata and other flashpoints in Libya's western provinces, Britain's already lukewarm popular support for the conflict is now suffering growing unease.
Since the 19 (...)
London -- There are more than a few theories circulating about the root of Egypt's revolution: that is was an Islamist revolution or that it is in danger of becoming one, that it was instigated by social media such as Facebook, or that it was a (...)
While the uprisings in the Arab world have scarcely left the television screens of global audiences in recent weeks, a new exhibition of film at the Tate Modern in London throughout March provides a very different view of life and art in this much (...)
London--The uprising in Egypt has continued to dominate headlines in the UK and much Western media, an indication of the import attached to the turmoil and potential regime change in the Arab world's most populous country.
Wednesday morning's papers (...)
A heavy police presence guarded the Egyptian Embassy in Central London on Saturday, as hundreds of protestors gathered outside to support the mass demonstrations in Egypt and to call for an end to the Mubarak regime.
Protests at the Embassy have (...)
London--“Wipe off David Cameron's smile, let's go Tunisian style.” This was the chant of student protesters marching in London this week against the austerity measures of Britain's coalition government (led by Cameron). It demonstrates the extent to (...)
London--Like many second-generation Egyptians raised in London, 25-year-old Hatim Morsy spent his childhood summers in the homeland of his parents, growing up with a strong connection to his roots. This was strengthened by his education, as he (...)
London--The repercussions of Egypt's New Year's Eve church bombing have reached London, a city of about 20,000 Copts.
The bombing, which took place at the Church of St. Mark and St. Peter in Alexandria, killed 23 people and injured scores.
St. (...)
London--Economic news from Europe is seldom good these days, and Britain is no exception. The government is currently embarking on a hugely unpopular round of spending cuts and austerity measures aimed to slash public debt. Financial turmoil in the (...)
London--Last Sunday's parliamentary elections have been the only story in town for weeks, at least for those living in Egypt. But for the large Egyptian expatriate community in the UK, the elections held less significance and received little local (...)
London--The Mazaj Festival of Experimental Middle Eastern Music, which took place in London from 18-21 November 2010, was not a ‘typical Middle Eastern' music event.
Michael Zerang, for example, played his traditional tabla upside down using two (...)
London is a city bursting with artifacts and relics of Ancient Egypt, from Cleopatra's Needle on the bank of the Thames to the dozens of mummies housed in the British Museum. It is, of course, the legacy of Britain's colonial past, but it also (...)
London-- How Fair Is Britain, the first of what is expected to be a three yearly report was published last week by the United Kingdom's Equality and Human Rights Commission. Hundreds of pages of data are examined from various vantage points to (...)
Complaints about the lack of change is currency. The pained look on a shopkeeper's face when handed a ten pound note for something that costs LE4 always precedes the inevitable question ‘Mafesh fakka?' ‘Don't you have change?'
If the shopkeeper does (...)
Ten years after a series of legal reforms in Egypt's personal status laws, more is needed according to women rights activists who convened this week for a conference on violence against women.
Law 1 for the year 2000 allowed Egyptian women for the (...)
Celebrated oriental literary compilation "One thousand and One Nights" (Alf Leila wa Leila) has ignited controversy once more this week. Although it has survived through the ages, it's now under threat of a ban in Egypt...again.
"One Thousand and (...)