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 ...

AFA copy 39088019763788 is a gift from Janet Stanley. "The Egyptian caricature is generally studied as part of Egyptian mass culture, and mainly discussed in the context of Egypt's anti-colonial ...

The vibrant capital of Egypt offers an enchanting experience that any traveler would want to be immersed in. With its deep-rooted history and significant African and Middle Eastern heritage, Cairo, ...

Behind the assertive exterior of intellectual Louis Awad there lay a compassionate observer ready to consider the views of his opponents, writes Tarek Osman in his series of articles on the makers of ...

Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine made some of the most penetrating films ever made about Egypt’s psyche. Cinema has shaped modern Egyptian consciousness probably more than any other medium. And ...

First introduced in the 1960s, cassette tapes quickly outpaced vinyl records as the medium by which spoken words and music were recorded, distributed, and shared. Tapes flooded markets around the ...

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 ...