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Arts & Culture
Oil-rich emirate cancels 400-million-dirham tender for prestigious ‎modern art museum, news agencies report
The first of a series of Tuesday Night Film Nights will feature a renown film about a state corrupted by its ruling military junta
With three decades of expertise in contemporary Middle Eastern art, one of the world's most important archives of human cultural endeavour seeks to build in the field
1994 play examines uses of power in political, religious and social realms, explores 'signs, transformations' of human mind
String quartet, brass quintet to play favourite compositions in Friday concert at Cairo Opera House
A unique exhibition, "Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting," opened 21 October at the Morgan Library and Museum, displaying handwritten Qurans, single illuminated pages, and scores of old manuscripts
Medhat El-Sebai warns fellow filmmakers not to make films about the revolution until it is complete; claims Egyptian cinema facing funding crisis
Author, artist will discuss importance of street art to Egypt's revolution, followed by film screening
New books and magazines have revitalised the comic book scene in Egypt this year  
Cartoonist famous for his Court Jester comic strip died on Friday 21 October aged 75

Egyptian artist's image from her new Ma'at series appears in a unique collective exhibition of works by celebrated contemporary artists from the Middle East and Arab world

Young Egyptian artists seize rare opportunity to display their work in an art scene dominated by established names

The ancient philosophers had their golden age; now it's Greek newspaper cartoonists' time to shine. The economic crisis that threatens to go global offers a bonanza for satirists with a talent for the scathing image or caption

Safar Khan gallery launches exciting exhibition of ink drawings by Alyaa Kamel and sculptures by Gamal Meleka

Jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi proves censorship doesn't always destroy artistic creativity

Film student Fady El-Sawy was detained and interrogated by state security posing as rights activists

The Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki, winner of the People's Choice Award at this year's Toronto film festival, says that success comes with a sense of responsibility

El-Namla cultural agency has set the month of October on fire with Flamenco seminars and performances, starting two days ago with informative and exciting demonstrations

Bands and musicians commend the idea of a new music web site, UMF; they feel that such projects are much needed for the current underground music scene

Three nights of oriental and Polish folk fusion music to the Nobel prize-winning poetry by Czeslaw Milosz opened at Darb 1718 yesterday, 14 October with two remaining performances on Saturday and Sunday

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