Interviews and features:
23rd Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre
INTERVIEW: Sameh Mahran, president of Cairo theatre festival on Egypt's return to the international theatre scene
INTERVIEW: A scream of the battered women: Lebanese director Lina Abyad on But I Love You
Picasso's muse Jacqueline resurrected in a play by Moldovan troupe in Cairo
Cairo Experimental Theatre Festival to open with Chinese play 'Thunderstorm'
The curtain rises on the 23rd Cairo International Festival for Experimental and Contemporary Theatre
Chinese 'Thunderstorm' brings a haunting past to Egypt's contemporary theatre festival
Last Night in Madrid play by the Eugene Ionesco Theatre from Moldova (Photo: Bassam Al Zoghby)
Interviews, features, reviews
INTERVIEW: Challenging the norms: Egyptian Yousry Nasrallah on his latest film Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces
INTERVIEW: Jordanian band Random House introduce their neo-Sufi sound to Egypt
INTERVIEW: Marianne Khoury on Dahshur residencies to develop Egypt's film artists, critics
Adonis band to bring music, poetry and a scent of Lebanon's small-town to Egypt
Palestine’s Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and Jordan’s Random House enthrall Cairo audience
Young Egyptian artists display creative versatility in expanded Roznama
Adrift on electric currents: Machine Eat Man experiments with analog synths in Cairo
Cairo, a gentle breeze, and Tania Saleh's voice
Colours of Minya: Alwanat cultural centre brings art to children and youth in Upper Egypt
Ballet class at Alwanat in Minya (Photo: Bassam Al Zoghby)
'Fairouz' documentary: On the inseparability of the Arab diva and her beloved Cedar country
Nagi Farid: An Egyptian sculptor's adventures with scraps, metal and stone
Egypt's Eskenderella and Palestine's Yalalan revisit Sheikh Imam's classic 'Ya Falastinia'
Between Japan and Egypt: Art materialises from waste in Downtown Cairo workshop
A connoisseur of love: Tunisian diva Ghalia Benali enthralls at Cairo's historic citadel
Photographer Salwa Rashad journeys Egypt from north to south
INTERVIEW: Egyptian theatre director Laila Soliman on 'Zig Zig' and drawing from historical archives
Following the passion: From medicine to Cairo's Art of Seeing photography centre
India's Kathakali dance-drama unfolds colors of Kerala in Egypt
Audiences at Cairo’s El-Genaina cheer for musicians Maryam Saleh and Zeid Hamdan
Swedish-Syrian Faia Younan sings of the Levant's warmth in Egypt
Myriad challenges face Egypt's theatre practitioners outside Cairo
Wholesome brass: El-Nafikha band introduces a new recipe to Egypt's music fans
Clash: The Diab brothers' humanism over personal politics
Swedish-Syrian singer Faia Younan performs at the Cairo Opera House open-air theatre on Tuesday 2 August. (Photo: Ahram Online)
NEWS: Egypt
Egyptian tenor Georges Wanis to sing in French production of Aida
In Photos: Two years since the passing of Egypt's renowned actor Khaled Saleh
Egyptian, French and German circus artists collaborate and tour Egypt's Delta cities
Photos: Lebanon’s Adonis performs before a full house at Cairo's El-Genaina Theatre
In photos: Ten years since death of beloved Egyptian comedy star Fouad El-Mohandes
Mr Robot: Egyptian-American Rami Malek wins Emmy for best actor in a drama
Egyptian film Withered Green to screen at Belgian Namur festival
Silver Bear-winning German director Christian Petzold to head Cairo film festival jury
Egyptian film Before the Spring wins top International Humanitarian Award
Yousry Nasrallah's Brooks, Meadows and Lovely Faces to screen at Toronto Film Fest
Egypt's Sins of the Flesh to screen at Carthage Film Festival
Rami Malek accepts the award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series for 'Mr. Robot' at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California, September 18, 2016. (Photo: Reuters)
In The Last Days of the City to compete in Cairo Int’l Film Festival
Egyptian film among awardees for Venice Film Festival post-production workshop
In Photos: Brecht's Mother Courage performed at Cairo's Miami Theatre
Google Doodle celebrates late Egyptian comedian Fouad El-Mohandes
32nd Alexandria Film Festival to honour Arab and Egyptian filmmakers
Egypt’s Nawara to open Sweden's Malmo Arab Film Festival, Hepta to close it
Mohamed Diab's Clash selected to compete in the 60th London Film Festival
Mahfouz exhibition in Islamic Cairo celebrates Egypt's most famous novelist
Egyptian actress Nelly Karim on jury duty at 73rd Venice International Film Festival
Egyptian soprano Fatma Said among BBC Radio 3's 2016 'New Generation Artists'
Cairo Int'l Film Festival to go digital with app for upcoming edition
Cairo and London exchange artists in joint festival Masafat
Fatma Said (Photo: courtesy of the artist)
Egypt’s 'Dry Hot Summers' wins best film at Oman’s Dhofar Arab Film Forum
Works from Faculty of Fine Arts to adorn Cairo International Airport's new building
Sharm El-Sheikh's Arab and European Film Festival to launch in Feb 2017
Les Petits Chats to open Egypt's Citadel Festival for Music and Singing
Egypt's culture ministry to publish book that shows Tiran and Sanafir are Saudi
Ahmed Helmy to return to cinema screens soon after two year hiatus
Two Egyptian films compete at the Dhofar Arab Film Forum in Oman
Cannes Film Festival's ACID comes to Cairo
Egypt’s National Theatre Festival postpones closing ceremony to mourn Zewail
Egypt's late director Mohamed Khan to be honoured in Tunisian festival
Award winners of Egypt's 9th National Theatre Festival
The Secret Life of Pets comes to Egypt's movie theaters
Still from The Secret Life of Pets' trailer
Controversy erupts over Khaled Abol Naga and Basma's participation in US TV drama 'Tyrant'
University troupes make a mark at Egypt's National Theatre Festival
Dubai looks to boost cultural life with the ultra-modern opera house
Following concerts in Egypt and Lebanon, oud master Marcel Khalife to perform in Jordan
Ice Age: Collision Course to hit Egyptian cinemas
Egypt's Armenian choir Arax to participate in international festival in Yerevan
Nadine Shams Foundation announces open call for short film scripts
'Abdullah Coldwater' of Alexandria leads the campaign demanding closure of film review site
Kamla Abouzekri's A Day for Women to open 38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival
Egyptian director Ali Badrakhan returns to the silver screen after 14-year hiatus
(Photo: still from My Love Awaits Me by the Sea)
NEWS: Region
Strong presence of Egyptian, Arab cinema in upcoming London Film Festival
Jordan's Royal Film Commission selects 3,000 Nights by Palestinian filmmaker for Oscars race
Syrian poet Adonis says poetry 'can save Arab world'
South Sudan's war-weary artists paint the town for peace
Renowned actress Hend Sabry honourary president of Tunisia's Intl Arab Film Festival
Tunisian 'The Last of Us' sole Arab film awarded at Venice festival
Friendship and death in powerful Syrian film 'The War Show'
Lebanese short Submarine to screen at Toronto Film Festival
Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said Esber, also known by the pen name Adonis, poses for a picture during the 2016 Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden on September 23, 2016. Noted Syrian poet Adonis, whose name surfaces regularly as a top contender for the Nobel literature prize, says religious fanaticism is "destroying the heart of the Arab world", but sees salvation in poetry. (Photo: AFP)
Child refugee film 'Fatima's Drawings' wins top award
'Dangerous' Morocco actress Loubna Abidar launches YouTube channel
Tunisian singer Saber El-Rebai in hot water for fraternising with Israeli soldier
Maskoon: Arab region's first genre-focused film festival to launch in Lebanon
My Love Awaits Me by the Sea: A Palestinian filmmaker explores the dream within
Iraq's youth orchestra: A musical dream that shattered
Hend Sabry starts hashtag for her book loving fans
Will Smith 'counters anti-muslim climate' during Suicide Squad tour in Dubai
Palestinian celebrity designer Kashou revisits West Bank with pop-up shop
National Youth Orchestra of Iraq (Photo: Courtesy of National Youth Orchestra of Iraq's Facebook page)
NEWS: International
'Reframe': Boats evoking refugees hang from Italy palace in Ai Weiwei installation
Between Arabic and Western classical music: Syrian musicians sell out concerts in Germany
Nigerian photographer captures Maiduguri life beyond Boko Haram
'93 Days': Nigerian Ebola movie extols moment of heroism
'We are at a turning point in history': DiCaprio unveils climate change film 'Before the Flood' in Toronto
Polish film on 2010 air crash which killed president Kaczynski points finger at Russia
'As an actor I love to be challenged': India's Amitabh Bachchan still the big boss of Bollywood
Review: Account of Monet's last work a chronicle of war, too
For 1st time, Henri Matisse exhibit in the Africa that inspired him
Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival
Malaysian rapper remanded for 'insulting Islam'
Contemporary art 'more than sunset paintings' at Ghana's street festival
(Photo: fragment from the Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival's poster)
Sarajevo Chamber Music Festival to organize house concerts
'Willy Wonka' star Gene Wilder dead at 83
Hollywood pays tribute to Gene Wilder
Adele: I won't sing at Super Bowl; show 'not about music'
'Turkish James Bond' to take on coup plotters in new film: producer
Morgan Freeman talks God, motivation and guacamole
American star Bradley Cooper to produce television series on IS group
Migrant crisis, politics headline Polish Shakespeare festival
Indian artist creates organic version of elephant idol, saving Mumbai's sea
Robert De Niro opens Sarajevo film fest
Nigeria halts film village plans after Muslim clerics' protest
Faced by growing clamp on freedom of expression, Turkish artists ponder an uncertain future
Demonstrators shout nationalist slogans during a protest in front of the headquarters of the Hurriyet daily newspaper in Istanbul, Turkey, September 8, 2015. (Photo: Reuters)
For more arts and culture news and updates, follow Ahram Online Arts and Culture on Twitter at @AhramOnlineArts and on Facebook at Ahram Online: Arts & Culture
Short link: