A decree issued last week imposes severe restrictions on the organization of art events in Egypt
There is no liberty in revolutionary art existing according to the whims of the art market and a security state.
Jano Charbel looks back at a few of the kitsch, offensive and bizarre public statues that have graced Egypt's governorates of late.
Participants in the Culture Ministry sit-in talk discuss shifts in their allegiances since supporting the June 30 movement.
The move over a year of rumors anticipating a Cabinet reshuffle
“The governor opened the last two festival editions personally so there must be a big reason for cancelling.”
Six months after previous culture minister Abdel Wahed al-Nabawy took office, the Culture Ministry opened its doors Saturday to its third minister this year:…
The newly re-opened state-run Egyptian National Theater has appointed actor Youssef Ismail as its director. The National Theater, which has been closed…
The Ministries of Endowments and Culture are going to work hand in hand to combat extremism, consolidate a sense of belonging to…
Gaber Asfour and Mamdouh al-Damaty were sworn in as culture and antiquities ministers in President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s newly appointed cabinet Tuesday…
«Two weeks ago I went to watch Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings here in New York after reading several reviews that were mostly negative, and, of…»
«Tucked away in the bustling commercial street of Mohamed Pasha Said in the Janaklees district of Alexandria is an Italian stone mansion housing one of Egypt’s…»
«I thought it appropriate to start this article with an excerpt from a poem by the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The title of the poem (left) is…»
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