CAIRO - "Come on! Buy the photo of the hero! Buy the photo of the leader!" cried one of the hawkers in Tahrir Square during last Friday's protests. He was selling photos of Army Chief General and Defence Minister Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who has (...)
CAIRO - The key mission of TV drama should be to imbue the viewing public with lofty values, say media experts. However, TV show-makers nowadays seem to have another target on their minds, which is to make large money regardless of the harmful (...)
CAIRO - In the populous Cairo district of Ain Shams, Mina and his friends are accustomed to sitting together and designing colourful ornaments to celebrate the advent of the holy month of Ramadan during which Muslims observe fasting from dawn to (...)
The relation between religion and the state presents itself as one of the most problematic issues that face Arab countries after the Arab Spring, which created a conflict between two parties, Islamist and secular. The first believes in the term (...)
CAIRO - As a Mediterranean musician, he has intimate feelings for Egypt, which he describes as being part of human culture for millennia.
"This is my second time in Egypt; a few years ago I came to attend the opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. (...)
CAIRO - "Politics prohibited" Mohamed Nasha'at, a theatre director, warned his fellow directors at the beginning of their performance while they were on stage.
"They could close the performance and take us to jail. Please, don't," he asked the other (...)
CAIRO - What do certain companies and vendors in Egypt do to sell their products, if they are not better than others' products?
Many of these products don't work as advertised or malfunction after a couple of days' use.
These companies and vendors (...)
CAIRO - As the government of Greece has chosen 2013 to celebrate the iconic Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) worldwide, the Greek Embassy of Greece in Cairo organised a special dinner, with all the dishes being those that were cooked (...)
CAIRO - With Greek eyes, they have tried to capture the Egyptian soul in their art works. They are very concerned about the details, as this is for them a very personal experience.
As part of the Greek-Egyptian Cultural Week, which opened yesterday (...)
CAIRO - What do certain companies and vendors in Egypt do to sell their products, if they are not better than others' products?
Whether he is really good or bad, he is one of those merchants who prey on many Egyptians, who believe that anything (...)
CAIRO - In a narrow alley in the Abdeen district in the heart of Cairo, a young man called Nader Naeem held his camera, as he recorded an interview with an old dustman who spoke of his dreams and his fears.
Nader then went to the headquarters of the (...)
CAIRO - The first edition of The International Festival for Drums and Traditional Arts kicked off on friday in the Salahaldin Citadel in Cairo at 8:00pm.
Thirty-five troupes from 25 countries will perform at the Citadel during the festival, (...)
CAIRO - When her husband was killed by Bashar Al-Assad's shabiha (thugs), she felt that her country was no longer her home and that she must put her family's safety first.
She took her three girls, ages between 15 and 18, and her ten-year-old son to (...)
CAIRO - In a small, once-prosperous Egyptian village, people used to wake up early and drive their children to the school, then work in their fields all day.
They would then collect their children at the end of the school day and take them to the (...)
CAIRO - “They won't beat me," she said nervously, referring to the Government officials, after she experienced several times of power cut.
Captain Nora is a gym owner, who put all her money in funding her life project, which is a little nice gym for (...)
Mother's Day is approaching, but some mothers are not looking forward to it. One of these mothers sits alone on the pavement outside a big supermarket in Cairo, selling lemons to passersby.
For many years now, the customers at this supermarket have (...)
In a society in which some men feel embarrassed about kissing or hugging their wives in the street for all to see, while at the same time they are willing to beat their wives in front of other people, as if it were something quite normal, Samah was (...)
In a land far away, where girls have pale white skin, because they never walk in the sun, Badr el-Bodor is born.
The girls of this land are kept at home and never see the streets, because their parents tell them that there is a scary ogress, living (...)
In his remarkable novel Utopia, published in 2008, Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik offers a gloomy prognosis for the future of the Egyptians.
In Utopia, people are divided into two groups. The first are the upper class, the very rich, who live (...)
“Stop feeding cow's milk to your babies," said Dr Ekhard E. Ziegler, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Iowa.
His advice was for Egyptian mothers who stop breastfeeding their babies and feed them cow's milk instead.
Such milk is not (...)
Two months ago, Egyptian women protested in Tahrir Square against the abuses they have been suffering from. They did so by cutting off their hair.
What they did brought to mind the famous folkloric character Naasa.
If you watch the latest (...)
For them, he or she lives in his own circle. This circle includes his or her family, hobbies, friends and all that he or she knows about life. But, what about the things he or she doesn't know about life?!
"Why don't we get out of our circles and (...)
"It's the end," she sighed while gazing at the pale face before her in the mirror. She remembered how she'd been a year ago, turned her back on the mirror and cried.
Laila, who then tried, but failed, to commit suicide, shamefully admitted in a (...)
BEIRUT - As part of its role in supporting and developing creativity and culture in the Lebanon and co-operating with the cultural movement in the Arab world, Shams Association in Beirut is hosting a Drama Translation Workshop from 21st to 25th (...)
When some people feel that the end is nigh, they choose to give up. But positive people face up to the challenge, and pick themselves up, brush themselves off and start all over again.
"We chose to start again, because our dream is to see our (...)