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Memoirs read by survivors of an Israeli operation against the Gaza Strip that killed 1,380 Palestinians will be read at The Gaza Monologues on 15 May
The downtown we often long for, the one enshrined in the black-and-white films of the 1940s and 1950s, is not what Khedive Ismail would have had in mind when he began his grandiose urban renewal scheme in the mid 1860s
Mohammed Ali Street in the heart of the city has always been associated with folk arts. From the gateway to cosmopolitan Cairo to the home of belly-dancers, the Street has many stories to tell
Ahram Online re-visits the history of the oldest cultural centre in Egypt
The Support Tourism in Egypt initiative is the brainchild of Mahmoud Saad, a young Egyptian photographer whose aim is to revive and promote tourism in Egypt, through organised walks that roam the heart of Cairo
Built by Alexander the Great in 331 BC the city became the capital of Greco-Roman Egypt. This is the first of many walks in the "city that never sleeps". We started on a long walk along the corniche
Egypt's oldest independent theatre troupe recites the words of Gaza's youth under attack
At the premises of El-Nahda Culture and Scientific Renaissance Association, a selection of personal old photographs with audio-recorded memories that plays throughout the exhibition is on display
An evening of story telling by Samira Kirollos explores the rich lives of three Pharaonic icons: Akhnaton, Hatshepsut and Cleopatra  
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The classic epic of real-life-figure-turned-hero al-Zahir Beibars describes a struggle between the good and the bad during the 300-year reign of the mighty Mamluk generals

Egypt in colours is an initiative started in February 2011 by five Faculty of Arts graduates, with a passion for art that they always wanted to share with the public

The city has a way of accommodating the past without deferring to it; scratch beneath the layers added by time and another age is there to be discovered

Ahram Online visits part of Egypt’s lost heritage, the Jewish alley of Old Cairo, known as Haret El-Yahud

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For 22 years, El-Tanboura folk troupe have been documenting our social history through songs of resistance

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