Football star Lamine Yamal's hoisting of Palestine's flag, and the Eurovision audience's booing of Israel's contestant, show how Israel has lost its PR edge
Takiya Al-Mawlawiyah, in Cairo’s historic neighbourhood of El-Darb El-Ahmar, is the only remaining Takiya with dervish theater. It has a rich history that dates back to the 14th century.
Takiya…
You have to find peace within yourself, inner peace. Feel satisfied and fulfilled - before you are able to be open for someone else - for a fulfilled relationship. Everything begins within us.
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All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know?
If they move too quick
They're falling down like a domino.....
All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got…
I spend far too long on Instagram nowadays. So long, in fact, that I have favourites, one of whom I am not afraid to confess to (the rest are mostly women golfers): Scott Evan Davis. He describes…
I have written far too much about Boris Johnson already, I know. Everyone has. The country has been through a tumultuous dalliance with him over the past few years and still can’t stop talking about…
Audiences are sitting on wooden chairs and their eyes are fixed on the stage waiting for the band members to appear. A few minutes later, members of the band wearing traditional garments show up amid…
Creativity is the path of awareness and cinema is one of the most prominent forms of human creativity and the most expressive of intellectual achievement in the cultural field.
The visual image…
THE UNSTABLE OBJECT II ★★
◆ Directed by: Daniel Eisenberg
◆ Genre: Documentary [Germany/France] ◆ Performances: Marseille Festival.
This film won the Grand Prize in the International…
Depending on the situation of the Arab market in relation to cinematographic works, the majority of Arab productions do not find their way to Arab screens - or even, in many cases, local ones, that…
It is well known that in antique times the institution of slavery was pervasive. The ancient Athenians may have invented democracy, but the voters still depended on slaves to serve the wine at the…
Cheap unmanned aerial vehicles cost only a few thousand dollars to make, but are costing millions to defend against, turning the economics of war on its head
Britons seem fed up with establishment parties after Labour's disastrous performance in this week's local elections, and the Tories' similar failure two years ago
Nestled on the southern Mediterranean coast, Egypt's quaint coastal metropolis marked its inception as an ancient city that wore many hats across civilisations