If there is one thing that dancer Khalil Al Ashar finds particularly challenging, its being ‘exoticised’. But as the world’s only professional Arab performer of the ancient classical form called…

Imagine a Schengen visa engraved on your back so that you can travel freely as an artwork and not a human? If you are asked by a famous tattoo artist to sell your skin for him to draw on it and…

Last weekend, at the American Museum of Photographic Arts (AMPA) in San Diego, Southern California, the tenth annual Arab Film Festival began in the shadow of the recent clashes between Israel and…

“Get well soon, Mother of Champions” said a statement by Mohamed Anwer Essmat Sadat, the nephew of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, announcing that the health of the former Egyptian first…

Anti-racism is now routinely framed as a threat to freedom of speech, but the tactic is not new. In 1965, William F. Buckley Jr. argued in a syndicated column titled, “Are You a Racist?” that the…

This American book, and many of the major American comments about it, seem to still have not figured out the real Edward Said. The deeply rooted spirit of Said, starting from Jerusalem, through Cairo…

Thirty countries were celebrated on Saturday 12 June when Cairo hosted the 8th round of the annual International Festival for Drums and Traditional Arts which runs from 12 to 18 June. “Drum…

Recently, People magazine published an interview with famous country singer Carly Pearce in which she said she was in love with another man -- a surprise to her millions of fans and to media…

Many years ago, when the machine did not control every craft and industry, Egypt was the pioneer of arabesque art. Islamic civilization was known for its unique wooden motifs inside and outside the…

Cairo witnessed this month the signing of two memoranda of understanding between United Media Services on the one hand and Al Arabia Outdoor Advertising and the MBC Group on the other. According…