Tag: Culture

El Lamoona: A bitter taste in the mouth for Egypt’s ruling regime

One song made famous by YouTube is El Lamoona, ‘the lemon’

Thoraia Abou Bakr

Amal Ramsis: Exploring the “Forbidden”

Filmmaker Amal Ramsis explores all that is forbidden in Egypt

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Eros, or the case of the hidden crotch

Most paintings are of strange-looking women in repose, with an emphasis on…

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Teatro Independent Theatre: Enlightening the masses

The theatre group performed Sartre’s No Exit at the Jeunes Créateurs Festival,…

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Sonia Hassan: Healing Cairo through meditation

The meditation depends on repeating The One or Allah’s names several times,…

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Egyptian author Mahmoud Salem dies age 84

The author is most famous for writing serial books for children

Daily News Egypt

Tahrir Bodyguard: Safeguarding female protesters

The group has been actively ensuring women’s safety in protests.

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New at the movies

Movie previews

Daily News Egypt

Restoration Centre at the Grand Egyptian Museum

The centre will work on documenting and restoring all the artefacts received…

Daily News Egypt

Operation #ColoringThruCorruption

A group of street artists are using colour to reshape the minds…

Thoraia Abou Bakr