One of the clearest signals of Egypt’s new creative renaissance is the shift in how young  Egyptians work and imagine their ...

Tarek Osman continues his series of articles on the thinkers who have shaped modern Egyptian culture with the singular figure of Abbas Mahmoud Al-Akkad The primary thread that connected the key ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...

First introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the ...

How do you adequately fill an art-historical gap? A retrospective for Chafik Charobim was held at the American University in Cairo’s Margo Veillon Gallery of Modern Egyptian Art last December. Curated ...