As music plays a role in preserving cultural memory – bridging the past and present – it is the need of the hour for intercultural dialogue that protects past heritage, and promotes the renewal of heritage to keep it alive and relevant fo...

Raqs El-Sham’adan, or Candelabra Dance, is the art of dancing while balancing candelabra on the head. Zeinab Hussein, who is known as Zouba Al-Kolobati and Shafiqa Al-Qibtya (Shafiqa the Copt) were some of the most famous candelabra dancers in Egyp...

Did you know that you can visit the National Museum for Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) and learn a new craft or deepen one that you already enjoy? In its efforts to promote Egyptian arts and crafts, NMEC hosts a diverse array of workshops, each special...

As part of developing Egypt’s infrastructure and transportation sectors, the Egyptian Ministry of Transport is preparing to inaugurate one of the country’s mega transportation projects, the Light Rail Transit (LRT) system. According to Ahram Onli...

Egyptian actor Amir El-Masry has been cast as the young version of British-Egyptian billionaire, former owner of Harrods department store, and father of Princess Diana’s romantic partner, Mohamed Al-Fayed in the fifth season of Netflix’s award-wi...

In polkadot dresses and signature headbands, the doey-eyed, strikingly beautiful Soaad Hosny adorned the screens. An artist who held Egyptians spellbound – she was Egypt’s ‘Cinderella.’ Soad Hosny was born in January 1942 to Syrian parents, t...

There is little more ubiquitous in Arab art than Egyptian rural communities; colorful and dynamic, these locales are hubs of energy and hard work, their niche tradition the subject of inspiration for many artists over the centuries. From French paint...

Former Dean of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University, Mabrouk Attia, is facing strong condemnation for comments made about a recent murder victim, Nayera Ashraf. Following the release of a Facebook video on 20 June, where Attia procee...

Rifa’a Al-Tahtawi rose to become one of Egypt’s leading enlighteners, thinkers, and translators in the 19th century. Author Kaj Ohrnberg describes him as, “a standard-bearer and symbol of Arab renaissance, the most-well known thinker of his epo...

In his book, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (1992), American author Gary Chapman identified five ways that people use to express their love to each other. Essentially, Chapman found out that people can receive expressions of lov...