Stage & Street

Minister of culture directs files to prosecutor

Evidence of corruption at the Cairo Opera House and Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts submitted to the public-prosecutor

Thousands enjoy merry Christmas in Bethlehem

Thousands visit Bethlehem to join the Christmas celebrations this year

Minister of Culture at Art Lovers Society tomorrow

In an open dialogue, the current Egyptian Minister of Culture Shaker Abdel Hamid will meet with the Art Lovers Society

Minister appoints new head of General Secretary of Supreme Council of Culture

French Literature professor Kamilia Sobhy to serve in post for three months

Czech Rep embassy in Cairo opens book of condolences for playwright Vaclav Havel

Book of condolences to stay open until Thursday at the Czech Republic embassy in Cairo

Erasmus Mundus: funding boost for Arab Spring countries

The European Commission has more than doubled the number of education and teaching grants available for young people and university staff from countries involved in the Arab Spring uprisings

The National Front for Culture and Change demands national salvation government

After two bloody days of military brutality against protesters, a statement by a number of politicians and intellectuals opposes the current government and demands the continuation of the revolution

Playwright and former Czech president Vaclav Havel dies

Dissident playwright was Czechoslovakia's first democratically elected president following 1989 Velvet Revolution

Freedom is the base for creativity, says minister of culture to Art Lovers Society

Egypt's new minister of culture tells an audience of the Art Lovers Society that Egyptians will never allow religion to limit their freedoms or become a regressive factor holding back progress

“We must put Egypt into the Intensive Care Unit”: Egyptian actor

Prominent Egyptian actor Nabil El-Halafawy proposes an initiative to solve the current political crisis in Egypt

Havel, a visionary playwright who trod in Kafka's footsteps

Former Czech president and literary figure, who died yesterday, focused on the effects of living under a totalitarian regime in his widely admired plays

When East meets West in uncertain Egypt

Cultural activists and artists from the Arab world and Europe held a two-day meeting at the Goethe Institute in Cairo to discuss openings and challenges in the region's cultural scene

Tunisia security forces to break student sit-in over niqab issue

The dean of the Arts Department at the University of Manouba calls on the local police to end a sit-in staged by Salafist students over segregation of sexes

Townhouse Gallery gets into the election spirit

'Politics of Representation' exhibition displays diverse range of materials used by candidates in Egypt's ongoing parliamentary elections

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