At a glance: Egypt's arts and culture in December 2016

Ahram Online , Monday 2 Jan 2017

Ahram Online brings you Egyptian and regional culture through interviews, features, news and reviews. Revisit December 2016 with the articles linked inside

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Wrapping up 2016

Music as Levant's refuge: Powerful moments in 2016
 

Triumphs in the Egyptian visual arts scene in 2016

 

When the going gets tough: On challenges that 2016 brought upon Egypt's cultural scene

 

Egyptian films from 2016 that will long be remembered

 

Egypt's artists and writers who passed away in 2016

 

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Features, interviews, reviews

 

A reminder of magic on Christmas day: The Animation Show of Shows in Cairo
 

'The purely physical does not interest me': Egyptian painter Riham El-Sadany on her new exhibition

 

Rebellious surrealists: From Egypt's 1940s to Paris's Centre Pompidou

 

Alexandria exhibition celebrates 'Hurufiyya' art movement

 

Cairo Choral Society joins Egypt Christmas season with Schubert's Mass in G

 

Empowering women against violence and discrimination through art: Egyptian perspectives

 

INTERVIEW: 'We Are Egyptian Armenians', a film about the history of the Armenian community

 

In photos: Exhibitions at Cairo's Saad Zaghloul Centre tap into the intangible

 

Uncovering the face of faceless art: On Egypt's graffiti artist Keizer, the ant and the city

 

Artworks worth a thousand words: El-Qassemi traces politics in modern Arab art
 

INTERVIEW: Egyptian filmmaker Kawthar Younis explores human relationships in debut documentary

 

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Keizer's artwork on display at Cairo's Mashrabia Gallery. Exhibition 'Anthology' 16 October - 30 November 2016 (Photo: Ati Metwaly)

 

Egypt news:

 

Star Wars actor Carrie Fisher dies at 60: People

 

Cairo Opera House launches online ticketing service

 

Visual artist Gameel Shafiq dies at 78

 

Santa Claus Is Coming to Cairo: NileFM releases their take on the famed Christmas song

 

Egyptian film Clash scoops two awards at the Indian Int'l Festival of Kerala

 

Egypt's producer Mohamed Hefzy selected board member of UAE's first Arab Film Institute

 

Egyptian composer Omar Khairat to perform at new Kuwaiti opera house
 

Egyptian films 'Withered Green', and 'Ali, The Goat And Ibrahim' scoop top prizes in Dubai
 

Renowned Egyptian actor Ahmed Rateb dies at 67
 

'To know, to be able, to want and to dare': Google doodles on late Egyptian activist Doria Shafik
 

Egyptian actress Zubaida Tharwat passes away
 

Egyptian screenwriter Mahmoud Abou Zeid, known for El-Keif, dies at 75
 

Mohamed Diab's Clash wins the Critics' Prize at Belgium's Mediterranean Film Festival

 

Egypt’s state cultural institutions suspend activities for three days after church bombing
 

Egyptian actor Ahmed El-Fishawy at Dubai Int’l Film Festival for three films

 

Egypt’s 'AH!' wins best short film award at Delhi Intl Film Festival

 

Egyptian filmmakers Marianne Khoury & Yousry Nasrallah jurors at Dubai Int'l Film Festival

 

Amr Diab's manager says no Hijab ban at Cairo Christmas concert

 

Egypt to embrace continent with African Cinema Club launch in Cairo
 

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Late cinema star Zubaida Tharwat in a shot from "A day from my life" produced 1961 (Photo: Ahram)

 

Regional and International News

 

British pop music superstar George Michael dies at 53

 

Dutch artist brings beauty to war-damaged Gaza home

 

Lost treasures of Syria's Palmyra rise again in new 3D show

 

Iranian Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman nominated to Golden Globe’s for Best Foreign Language Film

 

Key film nominees for the 2017 Golden Globe awards

 

American comic's show cancelled in Saudi Arabia

 

Swiss authorities seize artefacts looted from Syria's Palmyra

 

Celebrity-backed Cinema Jenin in Palestine closes

 

Iranians face terrorism charges after filming Israeli embassy in Kenya

 

As Aleppo battle ends, 'The War Show' film intimately shows Syria in new light

 

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The Salesman, by Asghar Farhadi (Photo: still from The Salesman)

 

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