Salet Orfanelli (Orfanelli's Hall), Ashraf El-Achmawy, (Cairo: Egyptian Lebanese Publishing House) 2021
Writing about an auction hall is an unusual subject for a novel, especially in Egyptian literature since these halls lost their luster a few (...)
Manbozo Al-Asafeer (Forsaken by Birds), Ismail Yabrir, Cairo, Elain Publishing House2020
No novelist can forget that his real mission is story telling. Master writers are the best storytellers in the world, it is as simple as that. What Ismail (...)
Sit Arwah Takfi Lel-Lahw (Six Lives are Enough for Fun), Doaa Ibrahim, Cairo: Ibiidi Book Data Publishing Services, 2019.
In the Western culture cats have nine lives, in the eastern seven. Novelist Doaa Ibrahim decided in her novel that six are (...)
Men Ahwal Al Mohebeen (On Lover's Conditions) by Ahmed Helmy, (Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation GEBO), 2020
The first work of any young writer is always a challenge. Ahmed Helmy decided to take that challenge in his first collection of (...)
What makes a hero in our modern times? It is no longer physical strength or military conquest; it is not what you actually do in life, because without the media, your actions will not be known enough, and the effect will be felt only by those who (...)
Hezb Balata (Balata Party), by: Nabil Nour Eldin, (Cairo: Al Mahrousa Publishing house), 2018.
Publishing a novel after the age of 60 does not come with the purpose of winning the Nobel Prize in literature or being in the Booker shortlist; it (...)
"Don't try to look like the girl in the magazine; the girl in the magazine doesn't even look like the girl in the magazine," we often hear saying.
In her first solo exhibition, titled The Rainbow's Neighbors, Egyptian artist Esraa Zidan has decided (...)
On Saturday, 28 July, Wael El-Fashny performed live at El Sawy Cultrewheel in Zamalek, as part of the activities of the summer programme at the popular cultural centre.
El-Fashny presented 16 songs with his band, presented new singers, and got the (...)
The 11th edition of the National Theatre Festival was inaugurated on Thursday by Culture Minister Ines Abdel-Dayem at Cairo Opera House.
The festival will run until 2 August, with events at 13 different theatres.
Thirty-seven plays that will be (...)
The censorship authority in the Ministry of Culture caused controversy before Eid last week when it withdrew its the screening permit of the film Karma in Eid Al-Fitr, which was due to open that week.
The reason given was the violation of the terms (...)
There was fierce competition for prizes at Ismailia's annual film festival earlier this month, with 62 films from 48 countries battling for a spot on the podium. The result was a list of winners that more than deserved their prizes, tackling a range (...)
Among the distinguished short-fiction movies screened at the 20th edition of the Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts was the Belgian film Alzhaimour, directed by Pierre van de Kerckhove.
Winner of 45 prizes in the past (...)
Lebanese-French musician Bachar Mar Khalifé was the star of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) which took place in Cairo last month.
He performed songs from his new album that will be released in May in Paris, which will be a tribute to (...)
The opening ceremony of the 20th edition of the Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts will take place tonight in the coastal Egyptian city of Ismailia.
The festival will run between 11 and 17 April, showcasing 40 movies (...)
The 8th Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children, which took place between 8 and 13 Marchm would not be complete without the French presence.
This year French art was represented with two components: the performance “H2ommes” telling the (...)
On Thursday, around a hundred people, children and parents, gathered in the main lobby of the Hanager Arts Centre in Zamalek, anxiously awaiting the start of this year's Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children.
The waiting audience was (...)
The organisers of the Sharm El-Sheikh Film Festival held a press conference held last week in Cairo giving details of the upcoming festival due to take place 3-9 March in the South Sinai city.
The press conference started a minute's silence for late (...)
American director Izzy Chan (Isabella Vincent Chan) will be among the guests of 2nd Sharm El-Sheikh International Film Festival, which will take place between 3 and 9 March.
Chan's documentary The Big Flip, representing the independent cinema, will (...)
Music in the streets is an old tradition in Cairo. For a long time it was a regular activity, and average Egyptians had access to these performances. One of the last such events took place between 9 and 14 February when director Intesar Abdel-Fattah (...)
When a painter writes, it feels like a mosaic trying to form a big painting, especially when the painter decides to free herself from the known forms of writing. Heba Helmi wrote scripts. “I was approached by the readers and the critics on what (...)
“Your first mistake is your last one... we kill our children if they make it." A harsh, inhuman rule to follow, but that's how arms dealers live their lives. Author Gehad Abou Hashish sheds light on the life of a Palestinian youngster who grew up to (...)
In her new solo exhibition, which opened on 8 January at the Zamalek Art Gallery, Souad Mardam Bey was inspired by a poem from the Syrian poet Mohamed El-Maghoot entitled Adam.
The brilliant poem, the name of which provides a title for Mardam Bey's (...)
Sculptor Ayman Saadawy's exhibition opened at Zamalek Art Gallery on 10 December and continues until 2 January 2018. The theme chosen was the Nile, a theme that has been dealt with thousands of times in various artistic venues yet still inspires (...)
Surrender (Sallem Nafsak), a play directed by Khaled Galal and staged by the students of the Actor's Studio managed by Galal, is yet another opportunity to discover new talents which, for many years now, the director embraces and nourishes. The play (...)