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November 10, 2012 by admin

Cairo’s Two Nights on the Town

CAIRO While thousands of Egyptians gathered in Tahrir Square last month to demand that the government release the blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah from prison, Cairo’s fashion-forward crowd ventured onto the streets for a different reason: to shop. Across the bridge from Tahrir Square, the well-heeled meandered around the quiet, affluent neighborhood of Zamalek, […]

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February 1, 2012 by admin

Humble Museum Aims for Rebirth

CAIRO – A diamond in the rough, the Egyptian Museum of Modern Art houses works by more than 1,500 Egyptian artists, mostly from the middle and late 20th century, including  the internationally renowned painters Mahmoud Said and Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar and the sculptor  Mahmoud Moukhtar. Also known as the Gezira Art Center, the museum, occupying an […]

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December 7, 2011 by admin

Refashioning Egypt’s Iconic Visual Symbols

CAIRO — Mud-brick houses are hardly the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of luxury jewelry, but they are precisely what Azza Fahmy reinterpreted as silver and gold brooches for her debut jewelry collection, “Houses of the Nile,” in the early 1980s. “When people look at primitive mud-brick houses, no one imagines […]