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Limbless singer gives voice to India’s rural poor
Bant Singh, a scarred survivor of class violence in rural India, has…
A dogged Aussie collective lands at the Oscars
The Australian filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films has been around since 1996, when…
Star Belgium artist’s home-coming smeared by ‘vile’ politics
Luc Tuymans, the star Belgian artist known for works on the Holocaust,…
‘King’s Speech’ v ‘Network’ in Oscars home straight
British historical drama "The King's Speech" enters the home straight as frontrunner…
Al-Aswany on the state of Egypt
By Sarah P. Blakemore Novelist and columnist Alaa Al-Aswany launched the English translation…
Egyptian Museum reopens to intrepid tourists
CAIRO: Dozens of foreign tourists braved the revolution in Egypt on Sunday…
In Qatar, Arab modern art gets its first museum
Paintings acquired by shadowy anonymous buyers paying record prices now hang in…
Risky Austrian Nazi comedy applauded at Berlin fest
An Austrian "Nazi satire" about a Jewish art dealer who dons the…
An art revolution born in Tahrir Square
By Heba Fahmy Tahrir Square has not only witnessed the emancipation of…