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art • 14 min read

A visitor’s guide to Cairo Design Week after John Berger

Hana Elhaddad | For its third and largest edition, the self-proclaimed fastest-growing design week in the region set

18 December 2025

art exhibitions • 24 min read

On the creative impulse under violence: What is the point of making art during genocide?

Sama Waly and Sarah A. Rifky | Multidisciplinary artist Ash Moniz has turned art-making into aid relief for Gaza

17 December 2025

Ancient Egypt • 17 min read

Looking back to see the present through the Grand Egyptian Museum

Aida Salem, Farah Fangary and Lina Attalah | The coincidental nature behind the establishment of the Grand Egyptian Museum

2 November 2025

Ancient Egypt • 15 min read

All around the Grand Egyptian Museum

Ahmed Wael | The museum will not be open to visitors until after the three-day celebration

31 October 2025

Antiquities Ministry • 14 min read

Where next for world heritage after Egypt finally wins top UNESCO position?

Aida Salem and Farah Fangary | Conservationists express skepticism about Enany given the new UNESCO head's checkered past

8 October 2025

art • 17 min read

On living, dreaming and dying in peace: Huda Lutfi and Bernard Guillot

Nadine Attalah | Quiet Dwellings was first and foremost an invitation to meditate on death and dreaming

18 August 2025

art • 31 min read

On Nasa4Nasa: Dance and hope in the end times

Omar Refaat | Reorientations of how to occupy space and mess with time and make magic are always needed as an anti

29 June 2025

book review • 14 min read

Plastic Jesus, real devotion

Sama Waly | Xenia Nikolskaya’s latest photobook Plastic Jesus presents a selection of photographs of Coptic merchandise

22 June 2025

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