Orientalism

As protests erupted in the vicinity of the US Embassy in Cairo last week over an anti-Islam film, Egypt Independent…

The body of the Egyptian intellectual Anwar Abdel Malek who died 12 days ago in a Paris hospital arrived on…

VENICE — In the tourist Mecca of Saint Mark’s Square in Venice, the Doge’s Palace is currently holding an exhibition called…

It’s sad to see all this Arab money spent on a superficial, cliche-packed and prejudiced production like “Black Gold.” Tunisian…

“Reflections on Islamic Art,” edited by Ahdaf Soueif, appears at a time when Islamic art is surging back into fashion.…

A young Arab-American composer is putting some thick cracks in a Western-establishment perspective that has for decades divided traditional music…

Rare paintings by some of Egypt's most renowned artists thought to have belonged to the country's former royal family have…

The 1889 Paris World Exhibition included an Egyptian exhibit built by the French to represent a street of medieval Cairo.…

You will not find a better example of Egypt as an Orientalist than in the newly released "Tharthara Ukhra Fawq…

Six years after his death, scholar Edward Said is still remembered for his influential theories on imagery construction between the…