At a glance: Egypt's arts and culture in December 2016
Ahram Online brings you Egyptian and regional culture through interviews, features, news and reviews. Revisit December 2016 with the articles linked inside
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
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
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
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
The Salesman, by Asghar Farhadi (Photo: still from The Salesman)
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