Amal Choucri Catta attends a brilliant performance of Aida, undimmed by an excess of golden trimmings

Mohamed El-Assyouti turns into an emphatically male film buff

The 17th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre has become a focal point for the ongoing controversy surrounding the Beni Sweif calamity, writes Hala Halim

In the wake of the Beni Sweif Cultural Palace tragedy, it seems the General Organisation for Cultural Palaces, long ridden with chaos, will finally put things in order. Or so Ahmed Megahed, the Cultural Sector's newly-appointed chairman, tells Rania Khallaf

Mohamed El-Assyouti wraps up an event of significance

By Mursi Saad El-Din