Egypt police search for trucks linked to rocket attacks
EL-ARISH: Egyptian police searched the southern Sinai on Thursday for trucks they believe could have been used to fire rockets on Israeli and Jordanian resort towns this week, officials said.…
Alexandria sculpture exhibit: Between two worlds
In the most fitting of locations, the sculpture exhibit at the Alexandria Natural Symposium for Sculpture in Natural Material has chosen to take advantage of what both the natural world…
Swiss film fest with Asian touch to show banned zombie movie
Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival opened on Wednesday for 10 days of art-house movies, including a premiere for an explicit gay alien zombie movie that was sidelined by Australian censors last…
Rome re-lives the Dolce Vita in photography exhibit
Two hundred photographs and magazine covers on show at an exhibit which opened this week, depicting the golden age of Italian cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, as the country…
Believing the invisible: Mime fest in Cairo
Mime is a world in where not hearing and not seeing can still lead to believing. In its sixth year, Sawy’s Mime Festival aims to popularize this elusive, unpopular art…
New class of African singers, rappers emerges
When rapper K'Naan was recording songs peppered with tales about warfare, poverty and despair in his native Somalia, there were people who told him he should consider abandoning his socially…
Media regulation borders on censorship in Pakistan
KARACHI, Pakistan: As the Pakistani media has become more influential, government efforts to curtail it have become more creative. In early July, the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting…
Egypt allows Libyan aid into Gaza Strip
EL-ARISH: Egypt allowed 200 tons of medical aid unloaded from a Libyan ship into the blockaded Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave, an official said on Wednesday. A further nine trucks loaded…
Editor denies El-Aswany quit Al-Shorouk
CAIRO: Editor-in-Chief of Al-Shorouk El-Gadid Amr Khafagy denied Wednesday recent rumors that prominent novelist Alaa El-Aswany quit writing his weekly column in the independent daily after facing pressure by some…