Cairo will get a taste of New York and Paris’ “Fashion Night Out” this week. On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, the central neighborhood of Zamalek will witness “Cairo’s Fashion Nights” (CFN), promising more than just fashion. The event was first organized in New York two years ago by Anna Wintour, the fashion force and …

Clothes fit for a star, designed by a star: Hollywood’s John Malkovich is opening a pop-up fashion store in Paris in the run-up to Christmas to showcase his new menswear line, his firm said this week. Actor-director Malkovich will host a VIP party in Paris for the commercial launch of the Italian-made collection dubbed "Technobohemian …

It comes as no surprise that the brand Nana’s Closet, by young Egyptian designer Dina Said, would make its international debut at London Fashion Week — during the Spring/Summer 2012 shows no less. Daily News Egypt had dubbed her “Egyptian Fashion Designer of the Year” in December 2010 for her beautiful summer and winter collections. …

President Barack Obama waded into the domain of the stars Monday as he hit the California fundraising circuit in one of his busiest donor outreach trips of the season. Actor Will Smith, in an elegant three-piece suit, and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the standout former point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, were guests at the …

Tao Rodriguez-Seeger was halfway through Friday night’s march down Broadway to support the Occupy Wall Street movement, a guitar strapped over his shoulder and his grandfather Pete Seeger at his side. Suddenly a New York City police officer stepped from the crowd and grabbed his elbow. "Are you Tao Seeger?" the officer asked tersely. "Was …

By Heba Elkayal Daily New Egypt: You and H&M have single handedly changed ideas about high fashion design since the start of the designer collaborations for H&M. How do you feel looking back on it now? Margareta van den Bosch: It was a combination of opportunities and timing, I guess. I feel very happy about it. …

Who doesn’t love Versace? The brand synonymous with rock ‘n’ roll glamour has recently collaborated with Swedish high-street fashion house H&M for a collection set to debut worldwide on Nov. 17. The excitement by fashionistas the world over is palpable. Scroll through any fashion blog whether in Canada or Japan and people are anxiously waiting …

LONDON: Somewhere, an aging drummer (identity unknown) is probably still kicking himself. A newly discovered letter found folded in a book at a Liverpool yard sale has shed new light on the Beatles’ early days, revealing that Paul McCartney offered an audition to a mystery drummer in 1960, just a few days before the band …

By Chitra Kalyani CAIRO: The January 25 Revolution, while being a liberating experience, is also one that could very well be a traumatic one, explains psychologist and neurologist Dania Danish, and founder of Tammenny.com “Tammenny,” meaning “Reassure Me,” is a joint initiative among 25 professionals (mostly volunteers) providing an online venue for those seeking treatment for …

The magical world of Harry Potter is being meticulously reassembled at a former aerodrome near London. The collection of sheds and sound stages is where the eight films were shot over the course of a decade, and soon they will be home to the official "Making of Harry Potter" studio tour. With more than five …

This week in Egypt carries the weight of crisp white cotton shrouds and the shiny wooden caskets of those we lost. Silence descends as I listen to the news, to the wailing of women at the morgue abruptly deserted in life by their sons. I, stunned by the recent events at Maspero, position my fingers …

A 3D horror movie set in a public toilet block is part of a revolution underway in the Asian film industry as low-budget 3D productions take on the big studios at their own game. At the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), audiences have been lining up to see the likes of multi-million dollar 3D …

A hint of autumnal Beatlemania was in the air Sunday as Paul McCartney, for the second time in his improbable life, climbed the steps of venerable Old Marylebone Town Hall to take himself a bride. True, thousands of heartbroken female fans crowded the columned building in 1969 when he married Linda Eastman, and only a …

By Rory Mulholland and Jay Deshmukh / AFP The day after the Libyan revolution erupted in February, Benghazi’s posh Al-Feel multiplex cinema closed its doors, its screens likely to remain dark until the war ends and the boys come home. “We can’t open until fighting ends on the front line where our brothers are battling Qaddafi’s …

There’s an odd story recanted to me that goes like this: A four year old girl, upon returning to Cairo and being invited along with her parents to her relative’s house for dinner, glared intensely at the thing presented at the table then slowly moved her head sideways to blankly stare at her mother. “Mommy, …

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody/ AP As Feist celebrated her 35th birthday earlier this year with an intimate dinner among friends, she was momentarily distracted by the intense flickering of a television in a nearby room. The images were bizarre — motorbikes on a stage accompanied by pyrotechnics and music. Whatever it was seemed outlandish and jarring. …

There’s an Italian restaurant in Maadi called La Rosa which is a neighborhood restaurant in every sense of the word. Tucked away on a side street only local residents are very familiar with, the waiters know regulars by name, the décor is nothing too exciting and the food isn’t cordon bleu caliber but it is …

The saturated colors, shrill background music and over-dramatic dialogue are the hallmarks of any ordinary Indian television soap opera. What happens next is a lot less typical. "I can never love you or any other woman. I am in love with a man," a young man tells his shocked wife, while his boyfriend looks on, …

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says he has regretted having sex with a teenage girl in 1977 ever since, in his first interview since spending months in a Swiss prison over the sensational case. "I have regretted it for 33 years, of course I regret it," the Franco-Polish filmmaker told Swiss television channel TSR, or Television …

The first week of the manslaughter trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor has had all the trappings of other courtroom spectacles involving the King of Pop: Dozens of sign-toting fans, TV crews, Jackson lookalikes and the familiar faces of the Jackson family enduring yet another public crucible. Inside the courtroom, jurors heard intimate, riveting details of …

“Already ma’am?” laughed Luz. I had outgrown yet another pair of shoes only recently purchased; and Luz, our Filipino housekeeper, calmly tidying my room, couldn’t contain her chuckle. I, an 11 year old, was passing down spanking new shoes again to a lady gradually growing shorter than me despite the long years of life she …

Carrots haven’t worked with Pakistan. Neither have sticks. Now the US has enlisted the power of jazz music to improve relations with Pakistanis at a time when the important alliance has hit rock bottom. The Ari Roland Jazz Quartet certainly faced a daunting task. The US has spent billions of dollars over the past 10 …

CAIRO: A two-day conference brought together NGOs from all over Egypt, outlining their role in the transitional period, all through resorting to IT. A joint collaboration between Microsoft Egypt, UNDP and ICT Trust Fund, the conference titled “Nebny Masr” or “Building Egypt,” was hosted by the Sawy Culture Wheel in Zamalek. The first day of …

  It is at Zafir that you can buy Egypt’s funniest shirts. Zafir, a small shop on Taha Hussein Street in Zamalek, offers well-cut and well-produced shirts with slogans and witty sayings that reference Egyptian pop culture and at times, serve as a commentary on social issues. Zafir always delivered products that are quintessentially Egyptian …

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski on Tuesday picked up an award at the Zurich Film Festival which he was unable to receive two years ago due to his dramatic arrest over a decades-old child sex case. The film director arrived at the award ceremony wearing a black suit and a white shirt, to the applause and …

Sitting down for breakfast on a recent rainy New York day, Michael Shannon was uncertain about the prospect of food. "They say you’re supposed to eat breakfast," he said, pondering the option. "You don’t eat breakfast, you’ll go crazy." The possibility was not a remote one: Shannon has never shown a reluctance to do exactly …

Daniel Carvalho patiently polished a guitar neck, replaced the frets and repaired the bridge, learning the craft of a luthier to refurbish old, donated instruments to give to kids in Brazil’s favelas. "It’s super cool what I’m learning here, and we are helping these children, which is important," 24-year-old Daniel told AFP, surrounded by tools …