In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois staged a giant pageant called “The Star of Ethiopia” in New York, with a thousand elaborately costumed performers and detailed sets, including an Egyptian temple. Over the next ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past? By Jason Farago We call it Egypt; the Greeks ...

Egyptian textile art has been a significant part of the country's cultural heritage for centuries. Famous for its intricate ...

Cairo Art Blog is a new non-profit platform, created to highlight some of Egypt’s most promising emerging visual artists, and seeking to connect them to galleries, curators and collectors within the ...

For many artists, the most challenging subject to master is the human face. The fault lies not in any intrinsic element of our features themselves – though our foreheads, eyes, cheeks, noses, mouths, ...

Egyptian nail artist Faye of ClawsByFaye has taken nail art for a spin, quite literally. Her latest set features a tiny Tanoura dancer whose colourful skirt actually rotates on the nail, turning one ...