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Ahmed Harfoush and Noha Fekry
Culture

The Riff Band: quality music for a decade

The band's anniversary show promises many surprises, including backing vocalists, a string…

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
The Bookspot in Maadi Courtesy of the Bookspot Facebook page
Books

Buying used books anywhere in Egypt

The Bookspot advertised for used books and visited leaving ex-pats to buy…

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
Ministry of Investment is willing to divert grey economy into formal economy (file photo) KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images
Campaign

Saving the south of Egypt’s coast

The 3Alganoob programme is slated to start in April 2013 and will…

Fady Salah
Fady Salah
cinema

New in the Movies

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2, The Words, Girl in progress,…

Adel Heine
Adel Heine
Adel Heine

The wrath of righteous scissors

Adel Heine's weekly column on women and scissors

Adel Heine
Adel Heine
Soaked papyrus is flattened before being lined up in sheets Abdel-Rahman Sherief
crafts

The Papyrus village

The ancient craft of papyrus making had become extinct, until it was…

Abdel-Rahman Sherief
Abdel-Rahman Sherief
The ArtsMart team during a street show Courtsey of ArtsMart
art

Online gallery ArtsMart launched

"We had the idea in 2009 to create a space where up…

Adel Heine
Adel Heine
Women picking cotton in rural Egypt
cotton

The white gold of Egypt

Egyptian cotton is renowned the world over for its quality. It is…

Adel Heine
Adel Heine
Portrait of a man from Upper Egypt Sherif Karas
Culture

This is Egypt: Sherif Karas

Photography in Egypt is often seen as a means to a commercial…

Adel Heine
Adel Heine
One of the paintings of the series The Path Hassan Ibrahim
art

Nihal Wahby’s solo exhibition engages and inspires

The paintings exhibited are separated in two series,I Want To Be Free…

Adel Heine
Adel Heine