Art & Culture

On Monday evening, Cimatheque Alternative Film Center in downtown Cairo celebrated the release of Haytham El-Wardany’s latest collection of short stories, Ma la yumkin islahuh [What ……Read More

On January 17 and 18, artists, scholars, critics, editors, and assorted others came together for a symposium structured around the production, consumption, and conservation of popular ……Read More

Two plays by Syrian playwright Ahmad Meree, in Arabic with English surtitles, made the “Now Toronto” list of 15 theatre shows to see in 2020: The double ……Read More

“Exiled at Home“ is a short film by Lina Sinjab, centered around acclaimed Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, who recently announced that he will not be traveling to ……Read More

The brand new Manara Theatre — brainchild of award-winning playwrights Hassan Abdulrazzak and Hannah Khalil — will launch, as part of London’s Shubbak Festival, with a series ……Read More

The long-awaited Naguib Mahfouz Museum — a museum for Egypt’s only Nobel literature laureate — is set to open not on December 11, the author’s birthday, ……Read More

More than 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in the government’s June 3 attack on a sit-in in Khartoum, where protesters were gathered to ……Read More

Starting tomorrow, a theatrical adaptation of Wajdi al-Ahdal’s A Land Without Jasmine (tr. William Hutchins) will be playing at London’s Battersea Arts Centre as part of ……Read More

Al Mawred Al Thaqafy (The Cultural Resource) announced this past week the grantees of the 2019 round of the “Production Awards” program, which funds creative projects ……Read More

If you’re lucky enough to be in London 13-18 September for the 2018 SAFAR Festival, then surely you’ll want to attend the short film program, ……Read More

When Beyoncé and Jay Z dropped Everything Is Love this weekend, they reminded us that they are untouchable. After all: who else can you imagine ……Read More

Last month, the fashion world was rocked when news broke of the passing of legendary designer Azzedine Alaïa. Tributes poured out from editors, designers, and ……Read More

Over at 972Mag, Christa Blackmon writes about Camouflage, a play by Ahmed Masoud that ran for one night only at Amnesty International’s London headquarters, and at the Times Literary Supplement, Raph ……Read More

Toronto based artists Lina Faroussi who was born in Syria, Irit Epstein who is originally from Israel and Iranian born Elham Hazfi are holding a ……Read More

Artists Stephanie Visser and Hunt Rettig to be Celebrated May 13th at FP Contemporary When asked what inspires Stephanie Visser to create her abstract works ……Read More