Until January 28, Cairo's Ofok Gallery in the Mahmoud Khalil Museum will hold a retrospective exhibition dedicated to the renowned Egyptian painter, illustrator and animator Ihab Shaker (born in Cairo, 1933). The exhibition was inaugurated on 28 (...)
Born in Cairo's Haram neighbourhood, near the Pyramids of Giza, artist Hany Rashed is inspired by the colourful world and the kitsch feel of his mother's family's accessory stores near Al-Azhar.
Rashed lived a life balanced between two different (...)
Mezzo-soprano Monica Georges will present a set of Coptic hymns and psalms, blended with contemporary tunes, with the David Junior Choir on 15 January at Mar Morcos church in Heliopolis, in celebration of Coptic Christmas.
Georges dreams of bringing (...)
At the Art Talks gallery, Alexandrian artist Guirguis Lotfi makes the audience ponder Egypt's current situation by juxtaposing it against the country's rich heritage in colourful, contemporary iconography
"Though Coptic art is an art in itself, it (...)
Even at the age of 69, Carolyn Carlson doesn't seem to get tired of movement. At the end of April, Carlson visited Cairo where she performed at El-Gomhorreya Theatre, before moving to Beirut. Carlson is one of today's most noted (...)
Syrian alternative rock band Tanjaret Daght (Pressure Cooker) use music as tool to 'document' a generation of oppressed youth, to talk politics and to revolt against the oppressive Syrian regime
Singing in the Syrian dialect, Tanjaret Daght (...)
