Stage & Street

AUC students to perform a play about Romanian revolution

Mad Forest, a play comparing pre- and post-revolution Romania through two families, will be performed at the American University in Cairo starting 8 February

Applications open for Euro-Mediterranean Academy for Young Journalists conference

Young journalists are invited to apply to participate in a free cultural education programme in April/May with the theme 'Social media in a changing world'

One Hundred Art Minutes at Artellewa

Weekly art discussions with Hamdy Reda at Artewella in Giza

Saturday El-Fan Midan to be replaced by protest

Coalition for Independent Culture cancels El-Fan Midan event planned for Saturday 4 February, calls for protest in Abdeen Square following the Port Said football disaster

Egyptian actress Soheir El-Barouny dies

Egyptian actress Soheir El-Barouny died Wednesday, 1 February, aged 75

Cairo Opera postpones Prophet Mohammed birthday celebrations

Cairo Opera House announced postponing of celebrations of Moulid Al Nabi that were planned on Sunday 5 February

El-Mesaha Arts Centre grand opening postponed

Scheduled to be launched in two hours from now, El-Mesaha Arts Centre announces the cancelling of its grand opening, in mourning for those killed in yesterday's football disaster in Port Said

Macedonia Muslims urge restraint over carnival

In one of Macedonia's oldest carnivals, Orthodox Christian men dress as Burqa-clad women, causing fury among Muslims in the country

V for Vendetta masks: From a 1980s comic book to the Egyptian revolution

Ahram Online talks to the illustrator of the original ‘V for Vendetta’ comic book, David Lloyd, who designed the now iconic mask that has come to define global revolution

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Massive number of Egyptians take to streets on Jan 25 revolution anniversary

PHOTO GALLERY: Graffiti artists spray paint Cairo in memory of Port Said Martyrs

The week after the tragic events in Port Said, graffiti artists and friends of the martyrs spray paint Cairo in their honour

Simpson dolls join Barbie on Iran ban list

An Iranian government-affiliated agency has banned dolls of the Simpsons cartoon characters, who join Barbie and others on a toy blacklist, an independent newspaper reported on Monday

Instead of celebrating art, El Fan Midan mourns attacks in Egyptian football stadium

Normally a happy, artful event, El Fan Midan became a podium for demands, cloaked in mourning for those killed in the attacks at the Port Said football stadium

Syrians see upsurge in creativity, humour

Uprising against Assad regime releases decades of pent-up creative energy and satirical humour

Poetry night brings the Egyptian revolution across the globe to Louisiana

On the anniversary of Egypt's revolution, a poetry reading against a backdrop of photos, recordings of protest chants and muezzin sought to give a New Orleans audience a taste of Tahrir

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