Inside an old cinema house in Malawi, Minya, the light beams are swinging and twirling while following the rhythm of the sticks.
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Amid an open air site, decorated with greenery, lie several layers of Egyptian civilization guarded by two giant baboons: welcome to Hermopolis, 'the joyous city'
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As the annual Thoth’s festival Egypt’s Wisdom Heritage is about to take place on 28th of October, Ahram Online talked to the woman behind the idea
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Egypt's culture minister handed out certificates to winners and launched the official opening of the virtual exhibition of the competition
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Being Egypt’s first independent theatre troupe that took to the stage over 30 years ago, the audience were delighted to learn that the door of Al-Warsha is wide open, once again, every Thursday
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Shafei is an icon in the art world, but long before she dedicated her full time to curating art exhibitions and collections, she worked on introducing art, foreign languages and literacy to the public
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This month, the Sufi troupe Al-Hadra celebrated five years since they first took the stage, and Ahram Online traces their journey as conveyed in their slogan 'from mosques to theatres'
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In the fourth of a book series titled From the Memory of Land and River, we fall under the spell of Syria and Lebanon, the land of cupid, poetry and jasmine
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Priest Dawood Makram, in his study of Coptic moulids, provides a rich analysis of one of the primary forms of folk culture and belief
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Imam Al-Shafii (767-820 AD) was the founder of the eponymous Shafii school of Islamic jurisprudence, one of the four dominant schools in Sunni Islam
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Focusing on community engagement and braiding the tangible with the intangible heritage was the main idea behind the initiative by Egyptologist Fatma Keshk
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In the third of a series of books titled From the Memory of Land and River, we wander in the land of wonder: India and Pakistan
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Ahram Online looks back at the long history of Cairo’s historic cemeteries, which each hold up mirrors to the rich heritage of Egypt
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A new book from the National Organization of Urban Harmony looks at the history of the district
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In the second of a series reviewing one of the most enchanting intangible heritage books in modern Arab history, we walk in the footsteps of prophets, poets and epics: Iraq
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The office of Al-Ahram's founders, the Tekla brothers, has been recreated at the newspaper's headquarters in Cairo
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