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Everything about George Bahgory recalls a lost time. The renowned Egyptian painter and caricaturist (sometimes referred to as the “Grandaddy…

Remember the world map hanging on your classroom wall? You must have gathered around it with friends, trying to locate…

LUXOR — In 1910, French novelist Pierre Loti wrote of the Winter Palace Hotel in Luxor: “The thing that dominates…

From Damon Kowarsky’s quiet charcoal cityscapes, to Qarm Qart’s psychedelic depictions of Cairo street scenes, recent exhibitions at Mashrabia Gallery…

Hanging in frames in pristine galleries and museums, or stored carefully in an artist’s studio, off limits for touching or…

Amid the late summer lull, two commercial galleries in Cairo have turned to old favorites to carry them through Ramadan.…

Talaat Zakareya: You must have heard of what’s going on in Tahrir Square. Bassem Youssef: No, what, what? Z: Drums…

As a part of the unprecedented efforts of Egypt's youth to spruce up the streets, a group of artists launched…

Egyptian painter Hany Rashed has undergone many stylistic shifts throughout his career, displaying a kind of risk-taking curiosity that has…

Progress can be a messy thing. Take, for example, the Tower of Babel. According to the story, humankind, united after…