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Life & Style
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City Lights
10/11/2025 2:24:28 PM
A spellbinding harp concert at the Turkish Embassy in Cairo last week marked 100 years of diplomatic ties between Turkey and Egypt, celebrating a shared musical heritage that stretches back millennia.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/11/2025 12:31:26 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi stressed the importance of close cooperation between Egypt and UNESCO in education, culture, and heritage preservation during a Wednesday meeting with the United Nations body's newly elected director-general, Khaled El-Enany.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/7/2025 1:31:24 PM
Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) has congratulated Khaled El-Enany on his election as Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), describing the result as a global acknowledgement of Egypt’s cultural and civilizational heritage.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/5/2025 11:07:49 PM
UNESCO’s Executive Board is set to convene to elect on Monday its next Director-General - a high-stakes face-off between two African candidates for the first time in the history of the United Nations’ cultural and heritage agency: Egypt’s Khaled El-Enany and Congolese diplomat Firmin Edouard Matoko.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/5/2025 10:23:00 PM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty underscored on Sunday the Arab World Institute in Paris’s leading cultural role in fostering dialogue between the Arab world and France and in highlighting Arab culture as an essential part of shared human heritage.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
10/5/2025 12:57:33 AM
Every two years, Cairo hosts Egypt’s only Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youths. Winners not only perform but also travel to Poland to connect with Chopin’s heritage, deepening their musical and cultural understanding.
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Egypt
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Society
10/3/2025 4:59:09 PM
Egypt kicks off the seventh edition of the Turathna Exhibition for Heritage and Handcrafts on Saturday at the Egypt International Exhibitions Centre in New Cairo.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/30/2025 2:54:43 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi welcomed on Tuesday Prince Rahim Aga Khan, chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), for talks on heritage restoration and cooperation in human development, education, and climate resilience in light of Egypt’s Vision 2030.
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Heritage
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Walks
9/28/2025 6:55:36 PM
Bosat Cultural Centre uncovers the intangible cultural heritage of the El-Qobba district.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
9/27/2025 12:31:33 PM
A Paris exhibition is looking at how French anthropologists collected African heritage in the European colonial period, writes David Tresilian
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/23/2025 11:46:24 AM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty expressed on Monday serious concern over the destruction of Palestinian heritage amid Israel’s ongoing assaults in the occupied territories.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/21/2025 8:08:39 PM
Egyptian Minister of Culture Ahmed Hanno announced Wednesday that Tamara-Haus has won the 2025 Best Practice Award for Preserving Architectural Heritage.
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Egypt
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Tourism
9/19/2025 7:17:01 PM
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain concluded on Friday their four-day state visit to Egypt with an extensive tour of Luxor’s iconic sites, exploring the city’s rich historic and archaeological heritage and learning about Spanish contributions to its preservation.
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Egypt
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Tourism
9/19/2025 2:40:53 PM
Queen Letizia of Spain visited on Thursday the Sultan Foundation’s cultural centre in Cairo’s historic City of the Dead (Ciudad de los Muertos), exploring Islamic Cairo’s heritage, meeting local artists, and highlighting cultural cooperation between Egypt and Spain.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
9/18/2025 8:19:02 PM
'From Ocean to Gulf: Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research).
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
9/12/2025 2:18:02 PM
The Israeli war on Gaza has destroyed many of its archaeological and heritage sites in violation of numerous international conventions.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/29/2025 12:50:55 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the winners of the photography competition held as part of its Sunken Cultural Heritage Festival.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Heritage
8/29/2025 12:45:07 PM
Alexandria turned the spotlight on its submerged treasures this week with the launch of a two-day programme on underwater cultural heritage celebrating one of Egypt’s most captivating archaeological legacies.
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Egypt
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Tourism
8/21/2025 3:41:55 PM
Alexandria has launched a series of cultural events on underwater heritage, hosted across the city’s museums and archaeological sites.
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Heritage
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Heritage special
8/20/2025 5:57:34 PM
'From Ocean to Gulf: Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research). In this article, we present the music of the city of Tunis from the dawn of the 20th century till the years of independence.
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