When the art of tinsel needlework known as tally began to disappear in the twentieth century, conservation groups and researchers tried to keep it alive, and also to document its methods and motifs
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Half of Cairo's charm is in it's past, which the Downtown Memory project manages to preserve
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Seif Ibn Zi Yazan, a Yemeni king, was predestined to greatness; Even before he was born, soothsayers were chanting his life in verse attributed to none other than Noah, the biblical figure himself
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This Wednesday marks Al-Israa and Miaraj, the Prophet Mohammed’s night journey to the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and ascendancy to heaven
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A new ancient Egyptian music master's programme is to open soon, intensifying the revival of the ancient art
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The El Baramka family, a folk music troupe that was formed over a thousand years ago, performed for one night only at the Tanboura Hall in Abdeen, Cairo
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The Dervishes of Abul Gheit are one of several folk troupes that perform weekly at Al Tanboura Hall at the El Mastaba Centre for Egyptian Folk Music in Abdeen
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When you stand at the intersection of Qasr el-Nil and Sherif today, what you see right across from the central bank is a multi-story building that was, when it was built in 1936, the pride and joy of downtown Cairo
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