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Thu May 17 8:00 pm to Fri May 18 10:00 pm Cairo Opera House
Cairo Opera Ballet Company will perform a selection of short ballets in the Main Hall. ‘Ballet Danses qu'on croise’ will be performed to Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances with choreography by Thierry Malandin. Brought to Egypt by Abdel Moneim Kamel,...
Thu May 17 from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm Italian Cultural Centre
The opening night of the Cairo Mediterranean Literary Festival sees Fernanda Calati reading select passages from 'Corpo' by Tiziano Scarpa at the Italian Cultural Centre in Zamalek. Attendance is free.
Sharqi Blues at El Genaina Theatre - Arts & Culture, Music,
Thu May 17 from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm El Genaina Theatre
The members of Holland-based Sharqi Blues are bringing their oriental-infused blues and jazz music to El Genaina Theatre in Al Azhar Park. Tickets are 10LE.
Maybe it was because we were really looking forward to the opening. Maybe it was because our previous döner experience at Ad...
Blackstone Bistro , Zamalek , Cairo
Not to be confused with fellow Zamalek restaurant Black Rock, Blackstone Bistro’s reputation precedes it...
Casseruola , Heliopolis , Cairo
Casseruola is a new restaurant on the top floor of Sun City Mall – and since this mall is kind of upside...
Grilla , Zamalek , Cairo
Egyptians are highly food oriented people, and perhaps because of this reason the opening of new restaur...
Nothing, not even the current political climate, seems to deter Cairenes from opening new bars and clubs. The newest additio...
O Bar , Downtown , Cairo
We always get excited when a new bar opens up in Cairo. We get especially excited when said bar is locat...
Bamboo , Giza , Cairo
Taking up the ground floor of the Trianon boat in Giza, Bamboo is just a few steps downstairs from the i...
O Bar , Downtown , Cairo
It’s tough navigating the social scene in Cairo. As lively as nightlife in the capital is, a lot of the ...
If you have a taste for the authentic, and prefer a rustic feel to your home accessories rather than a glossy one, then Cata...
El Nomrossy , Zamalek , Cairo
While Cairo has a lot to offer in terms of shopping, especially in more recent years, there are still ce...
Rue 9 , Maadi , Cairo
Maadi is well known for its eclectic community and the best thing about this is that food from all over ...
Sera , Nasr City , Cairo
Shopping for clothes in Cairo is not an easy affair; international brands are often stylish but overpric...
In a city where, according to statistics, 80% of women have been subjected to harassment, it isn't the worst idea to take up...
10 , Zamalek , Cairo
Egyptians love beautifying. If there is one pastime that a revolution cannot come in the way of, it is t...
La Coupe , Zamalek , Cairo
With a few branches already running in Mohandessin, Heliopolis and Sheikh Zayed, La Coupe recently made ...
Dar El Maghreb Spa , Mohandiseen , Cairo
There is absolutely nothing like the feeling of being freshly showered; clean and renewed, catching whif...
A joint architectural venture between an Arab and a Hungarian, Husayn Fahmi Pasha al-mi'mar and later Max Herz Bey, Al Rifai...
Maagana Camp: Nuweiba's Splendid Cove
Life in Cairo is mostly characterised by the need for an escape and an ongoing search for tranquility. I...
Win! A Night at Stella Di Mare & Tickets to Stella’s After Party!
Egypt’s practically bursting with creative talents. Just one look at the hundreds of YouTube videos of s...
Orange Bay: Beautiful Secluded Red Sea Island near Hurghada
If you’re planning a trip to the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, one essential part of your experience ...
Sammy (Lowenthal) is a fifty-year-old turtle who has seen the world change from a sparkling paradise to a place overrun by h...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Sometimes small is better. There are times when all you want is a basic, straightforward action film tha...
The Lucky One
We’ve all seen, at the very least, one Nicholas Sparks film which is enough to figure out the formula th...
The Last Exorcism
If you’ve watched any horror films in the last couple of years, you’ve probably seen this one ten times ...
True originality isn’t easy to come by in the music business these days. We’ve witnessed more than a fair share of artists d...
Win! Tickets to Rock Stop Featuring Mashrou' Leila!
The despair of seeing the appointed prince of Arab music cavorting with the likes of Snoop Dogg and Shag...
MDNA
True music fans love to reminisce and postulate about a far gone time when music was art. Now there’s a ...
Win! VIP Tickets to Masters of Rock at the Pyramids!
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and only in a money-hungry, capitalist 21st ce...
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Having adopted a theme in each of its first two editions, this year’s Cairo Mediterranean Literary Festival looks at the rel...
It's Complicated - An Evening of Short Plays at Rawabet Theater
Love is the purest of emotions. Absolute bliss. Rainbows and puppies. Relationships however, are often a...
'Dust' by Xenia Nikolskaya  at Townhouse Gallery
What started off as a healthy interest in Egypt eventually led Russian born Xenia Nikolskaya to Cairo wh...
'Drawing' by Mostafa Abdel Moity at Zamalek Art Gallery
Egyptian artist Mostafa Abdel Moity considers his work to be contemporary. As one of the founders of the...
Penny Vincenzi's latest novel The Decision tells the story of Eliza Fullerton-Clark and Matt Shaw who live in London in the 60s. Eliza is a society girl, carving out a career for herself in the fashion industry and Matt becomes a millionai...
Stories about couples that break up because one of the partners has run off with someone else are pretty commonplace, but a story about a couple that gets a divorce because the husband decides to shack up with a pack of wolves has got to r...
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, the mother of Elizabeth Woodville who was the Queen of England in the fifteenth century. Raised by a wealthy family in France, Jacquetta is descended from a goddess with outstanding tale...