Mohamed Abdel Wahab, born in Cairo’s Bab El Sha’riya in 1904, was more than a singer and composer—he was a bridge between eras. Defying his family’s wishes, he chased his passion in humble theaters, ...

Renowned Egyptian composer and pianist Omar Khairat will perform at Royal Albert Hall in a special one-night-only concert ...

The Cairo Opera House has opened the Mohamed Abdel Wahab Museum and the Musical Instruments Museum to the public free of charge from March 8th to 12th, 2026. The initiative takes place at the Arabic ...

Most great satire takes high aim at those lofty institutions bearing down on us from atop towers of bullshit - bureaucracy, politics, and all your favorite ‘isms - but we’ll get to all that later. To ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Hafez al-Mirazi is a Bureau Chief for Washington in the Al Jazeera Television with 22 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Call-In. The year with ...

Disclosure upfront: I am Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah’s lawyer. Randa, for the latecomers, is a Palestinian-Australian academic and writer whose disinvitation from the Adelaide Writers’ Week led to a mass ...