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Latest in Culture
‘Writing on Snow’ wins Best Movie Award at Muscat International Film Festival
Story shows audiences different beliefs among Arabs regarding Israeli occupation
Capturing Egypt on glass: Egyptian history through negatives and timeworn photographs
Exhibition displays some of Antiquities Ministry’s archived glass negatives
Peace march held in Sharm El-Sheikh to send world message of love
Art as a common language that builds a bridge of communication, friendship, and affection among nations; Abdel Dayem
Without Damage gets a ground-breaking debut at Egypt’s D-CAF
People may or may not be familiar with contemporary art, but it involves no damage to the audience to watch the amazing performance by contemporary dancer Mohamed Fouad and see for themselves what the performance has to say; to construct their own meanings. The 45-minute world premiere contemporary dance show is performed by Mohamed Fouad, …
D-CAF’s Before the Revolution portrays all roads to ‘inevitable eruption’
In a dimly lit room, where the surrounding black walls invaded one’s soul, leaving attendees alerted with frustration and apprehension, only two performers under bright yellow spotlights, standing still, welcoming attendees with emotionless faces and what looks like soulless bodies, started the journey of time travel to Egyptian daily lives before the 25 January 2011 …
SOMA Art School hosts ‘Aya Tarek’s Sprezzatura’
The Cairo-based SOMA Art School will host starting Sunday an exhibition by artist Aya Tarek named “Aya Tarek’s Sprezzatura”. The exhibition will be open until 15 April. Sprezzatura is a term associated with an Italian art movement. Yet, the word dates back to the 15th century when it was first used by Balassare Castiglione in The Book of Countier, an …
Wust El-Balad’s latest album rocks Old Cairo at Darb 1718
In the vacant space of Darb 1718, spring’s cold breeze surrounded hundreds of loyal fans who passionately spent their afternoon waiting for one of their favourite bands, Wust El-Balad, to release its latest album, “Bantalony El-Jeans” (My Jeans Trousers). “Bantalony El-Jeans” is the latest musical album the soft rock band meets their fans with, after …
Dachshund gets its own museum amid revived popularity
With its sausage-like body and notorious stubbornness, the revered dachshund had lately fallen from favor among pooch lovers. But the opening of the world’s first wiener dog museum means the hound is back in vogue.What do Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Adele have in common? What else but …
Pilgrimage season gets underway in Europe
More and more people are stepping away from daily life and onto a pilgrimage path like the Way of Saint James, which goes to Spain’s west coast. Germany also offers pilgrims routes and help to meet their different needs.Spring has finally started, and with it the new pilgrimage season. In the weeks and months ahead, …
Simon Rattle named honorary conductor of Germany’s National Youth Orchestra
Simon Rattle is leaving the Berlin Philharmonic later this year, but isn’t out of a job. He’ll continue as the music director at the London Symphony Orchestra — and now he’s added a new position to the mix.Sir Simon Rattle has been named honorary conductor of Germany’s National Youth Orchestra (BJO), a position that will …
KINO favorites: 7 great movies inspired by German books
From Thomas Mann’s controversial novel to a satirical book about Adolf Hitler: DW’s Kino team picked its seven favorite film adaptations of German works of literature.It’s fair to say Virginia Woolf hated movies based on books. In her essay “The Cinema,” the author of “Mrs Dalloway” even compares films to parasites that exploit and devour …
Paris exhibition celebrates revolutionary Russian art
In the wake of the Russian Revolution, artist Marc Chagall created an avant-garde art school that drew in abstract art pioneers like Kazimir Malevitch. Works from this People’s Art School are now on display in Paris.A resident of Petrograd, Russian-French artist Marc Chagall was greatly affected by the Bolshevik revolution that transformed Russia in 1917. …
King Farouk’s auctioned watch sets record
Watch obtained by unidentified buyer through phone call during auction
High Five: 5 artists that make you look twice
You won’t believe your eyes when you look at these artists’ works. Illusionists M.C. Escher, street artist Leon Keer, and others turn optical illusions into art. It takes a second look to see what’s really there.One of the most famous artists who included optical illusions in his works was Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher. His …
Egyptian writer Louis Greiss dies aged 90
He was first, only Egyptian to interview Che Guevara
Unseen sides of Egypt
Top pictures posted on Instagram by amateur photographers
Limestone featuring Hatshepsut found in London
An ancient Egyptian depiction with carvings featuring female Pharaoh Hatshepsut was discovered by Kenneth Griffin, an Egyptology lecturer at Swansea University in the United Kingdom, the university said in a statement. The discovery came as the limestone was selected from the university’s Egypt Centre stored collection to be used in an object handling session. The …
2018 Art Dubai: Egypt shines among world’s finest arts
From the calligraphy-rich Sufi-inspired works of Algerian Rachid Koraïchi to the sombre work of Palestinian Samah Shihadi, the 2018 edition of Art Dubai offered art buyers and aficionados a wide range of artistic expression from the Middle East and around the globe. The 2018 edition ran from 21-24 March. The work of Doaa’ Aly, one …
Palestinian resistance icon Rim Banna dies at 51
Banna’s latest album was meant for release in April, dedicated to Palestinian resistance
Marx directs traffic in hometown on 200th birthday
While Karl Marx was exiled from Germany and died in England, the author of “Das Kapital” remains a celebrated figure in his hometown of Trier, where he now adorns pedestrian traffic lights in the city center.The Lord Mayor of Trier, Wolfram Leibe, inaugurated on March 19 a pedestrian light on which the silhouette of the …
Take a dip in the world’s most exclusive pool
Considered the world’s most instagrammed hotel and welcoming over one million visitors per year, the Marina Bay Sands is more a tourist spot that happens to be a hotel. Its infinity pool is Singapore’s main attraction.“We booked a room at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel”, a former coworker announced when I visited him some weeks …
One of King Farouk’s watches to be auctioned
1518 series is first set of watches to combine calendar, chronograph inside watch
Potsdam’s New Palace to celebrate in June
Great performance for the New Palace. From mid-June, the new exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Prussian monarchy in 1918 will be shown there, and extensive restoration work is underway.The renovation of the New Palace in Potsdam, Germany, has cost 27 million euros (33 million dollars) in recent years, the endowment …
Rocker Udo Lindenberg opens his Hamburg museum, Panic City
Panic, art and virtual reality: German rocker Udo Lindenberg’s life and times can now be experienced at a multimedia museum in Hamburg — with a little glass of eggnog thrown in for good measure.Few performers are more closely identified with postwar German history than Udo Lindenberg, whose biting humor and bittersweet ironic texts have even …
D-CAF cancels displaying Before the Revolution play
Censorship authority requested removing five scenes of play, director says it drains play’s content
Six Egyptian mummies to be displayed in Queensland Museum
Museum shows clip of unwrapping overweight Roman mummy, buried without organ removal
‘World Music Concert’ gathers Cairo Choir with Jordan’s Dozan wa Awtar
In a “World Music Concert”, the Cairo Celebration Choir (CCC), together with Dozan wa Awtar choir from Jordan, will unite on Thursday 22 March, at El-Dar, Heliopolis. The first concert series that featured both choirs took place in February 2017, when CCC and Dozan wa Awtar performed at the Cairo Opera House and at the …
Palm leaf boxes: A handicraft fighting extinction
While the world may be familiar with Egypt’s handmade products as some of the finest home decorations, pottery artwork, embroidered cloths, and handmade bags, an almost forgotten handiwork fights for survival in Upper Egypt. Making boxes out of palm leaves—where boxes are made of palm leaves after being reshaped—is an endangered craft. Despite their creators …
Comares: A historical investigation into the Fall of Andalusia
After the notable success his first two books, A Jar of Nutella and Europe in Embaba Local Time, achieved over the last years, writer Mahmoud Zaki has recently released his third book, Comares, which attracted attention during the Cairo International Book Fair that was held between 27 January and 10 February this year. Coincidence played …
New Banksy mural in New York protests Turkish artist Zehra Dogan’s imprisonment
As part of the Erdogan government’s crackdown on dissidents, Zehra Dogan was sentenced to over two years in jail — for a watercolor. Now, the iconic street artist Banksy has represented and protested her plight.The anonymous British artist’s latest work, unveiled on Thursday in New York City, is a 70-foot-long (21-meter-long) call for the government …