However, the sprawling city also has an artistic heritage spanning centuries that is the foundation upon which Cairo’s contemporary art scene is built. As iconic cultural centers have been threatened ...

Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

GIZA - For centuries, the Pyramids belonged to antiquity. Now, thanks to Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, they've become a stage for contemporary art and global fashion - a juxtaposition unthinkable until she ...

Pedestrians, donkeys and cars swerved past our table in the narrow cobblestone street of Muiz li Dan Allah. Amir El-lithy's passionate discourse about contemporary art was interrupted by a wedding ...

It is often said that Cairo is an open-air museum, and while its historical pedigree is evident in landmarks such as the majestic pyramids of Giza and the recent official launch of the Grand Egyptian ...

AFA copy 39088019764232 Gift from Janet Stanley. "Creating Spaces of Hope" explores some of the newest, most dynamic creativity emerging from young artists in Egypt and the way in which these artists ...

Hamed Nada’s “Folkways” (nd) in When Arts Become Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–65) exhibition (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) The calls to revise the canon of art history have ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has signed a strategic cooperation protocol with cultural platform Art D’Égypte, marking a significant step in Egypt’s efforts to expand its cultural diplomacy ...

We are living in the era of hyper-connectivity. And as overbearing as that is, and as wired as it makes us, we cannot deny that it opens up a host of previously unthinkable opportunities. You can now ...

What does downtown Cairo sound like? During the afternoon rush hour, it's a stirring cacophony of rapid-fire honking, skyward mosque orations, and waves of sidewalk chatter — a beautiful mix if you're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GIZA — For centuries, the Pyramids belonged to antiquity. Now, thanks to Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, they’ve become a stage for ...