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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/6/2023 4:00:39 PM
Short film Simo by Egyptian-Canadian director Aziz Zoromba will screen during the Sharjah Film Platform, a festival running between 8 and 17 December.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
12/5/2023 8:47:01 PM
Nahed Nasr reports from the third Red Sea International Film Festival
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/3/2023 6:50:18 PM
While celebrating “Women in Cinema,” the Red Sea International Film Festival, Jeddah (30 November - 9 December), and Vanity Fair honored the renowned Egyptian actress Nabila Ebeid.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
12/2/2023 2:46:30 PM
Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET) called for submissions of plays by theatre troupes wishing to participate in the festival's 31st edition (1-8 September 2024).
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/30/2023 11:11:55 AM
Topping the already impressive number of awards, November proved particularly successful for Sudanese filmmaker Mohamed Kordofani's film Goodbye Julia. The film scooped 10 awards at the festivals in Nicosia (Cyprus), Tarragona (Spain), Leeds (UK), Belfast (Ireland), among others.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
11/29/2023 3:09:30 PM
Ahram Online highlights a selection of do-not-miss events this week (29 November - 5 December) in Cairo and Sharm El-Sheikh.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
11/28/2023 1:03:26 PM
Speaking from the Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (SITFY), taking place 25-30 November, where he is being honoured, British director Richard Talbot talks about the art of comedy and its role in times of war or political and social conflict.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/27/2023 10:23:48 AM
Following two postponements, the sixth El-Gouna Film Festival announced that it will hold a Special Edition 14-21 December.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
11/23/2023 11:18:15 AM
Ahram Online highlights a selection of do-not-miss events this week (23-28 November) in Cairo, Alexandria, and Sharm El-Sheikh
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/20/2023 10:15:03 AM
Inshallah A Boy, the highly successful Jordanian film, won the Director's Debut Award at Camerimage Film Festival (11-18 November) in Poland.
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
11/19/2023 10:59:47 PM
Renowned American theatre coach and director Scott Trost will hold a workshop during the 8th Sharm El-Sheikh International Theatre Festival for Youth (25-30 November - SITFY).
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/19/2023 5:22:20 PM
An Israeli security assessment admitted that the Israeli army in fact targeted its own civilians participating in the Nova music festival during Hamas' “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, refuting another Israeli allegation of what had happened and still happening on the ground in Gaza.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/18/2023 10:43:52 AM
Many Palestinian films have scored top awards at international festivals over the years and have been nominated to the Academy Awards. Ahram Online highlights 10 films that you cannot miss.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/12/2023 11:23:16 AM
Victory of Youth, starring Farid Al-Atrash and Asmahan, and My Wife's Goblin, with Shadia and Salah Zulfiqar, will screen during the Treasures segment of the upcoming Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
11/7/2023 9:50:20 PM
Nahed Nasr spoke to the two leads in the Sudanese film sensation that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/7/2023 6:25:06 PM
Mohamed Kordofani's Goodbye Julia scooped Best Director in a Debut Feature Film and Best Leading Actress awards during the 18th Cyprus International Film Festival (1-5 November) in the Cypriot capital of Nicosia.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
11/6/2023 2:05:27 PM
Thoth annual heritage and culture festival celebrated on 27-28 October the 50th memorial anniversary of the renowned cultural figure Taha Hussein (1889-1973) in New Hermopolis, Minya.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
11/2/2023 3:45:40 PM
The management of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) announced the resignation of its director Amir Ramses, citing no reason for the decision.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
10/27/2023 8:12:22 PM
"Leave the World Behind," an acclaimed novel about ordinary people struggling to cope as a slow and mysterious disaster shuts down the world, felt topical when it was published during the unfurling pandemic of 2020.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
10/24/2023 9:39:31 PM
For some “to cancel or not to cancel” cultural activities is equivalent to “to mourn or not to mourn” the lost Palestinian souls whose numbers multiply every day. Others ponder different angles, considering messages that artistic activities can communicate at such a difficult time.
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