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  • Egypt registers ""El Aragoz" on UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Date: 2018-11-28 12:31:05 GMT - France - Culture and Art - SN:47 - ID:7690246

    PARIS, Nov 28 (MENA) - The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at UNESCO has endorsed Egypt's proposal on registering the clown "El Aragoz" on the organization's List of Intangible Cultural ....

  • BA: Memory of Arab World project to be launched next year

    Date: 2018-11-28 10:56:25 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:32 - ID:7690052

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Nov 28 (MENA) - Head of the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT), affiliated to Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), Khaled Azab said the project of the Memory of Arab World aims at building the largest ....

  • 240 artifacts transferred from Tahrir Museum to GEM

    Date: 2018-11-26 11:51:06 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:48 - ID:7687002

    GIZA, Nov 26 (MENA) - Ten big-sized paintings from the Sneferu era were transferred on Monday from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in near the Pyramids in Giza. The transfer also included 230 artifacts from ....

  • Egypt wins Most Creative Award at Beijing's national costume competition

    Date: 2018-11-26 07:50:09 GMT - China - Culture and Art - SN:14 - ID:7686472

    BEIJING, Nov 26 (MENA) - Egypt won the Most Creative Award at the 2018 Diplomat National Costume Competition in Beijing. Teams from 15 countries, including Germany, South Korea, Indonesia and Russia, participated in the event wearing their ....

  • State awards ceremony to be held again -- minister

    Date: 2018-11-24 16:33:35 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:32 - ID:7684242

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - An annual ceremony of the Supreme Council of Culture for honoring the winners of state awards will be held again after several years of hiatus, Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem said on Saturday. This step is part of ....

  • CIFF to organize lectures on media impact on social issues

    Date: 2018-11-24 15:13:23 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:28 - ID:7684081

    CAIRO, Nov 24 (MENA) - The United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) will participate on Saturday in "Cairo Cinema Days" lectures to be organized for the first time in cooperation with Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) on Sunday. The events ....

  • Saeed lauds good organization of 40th Cairo Int'l Film Festival

    Date: 2018-11-21 06:31:42 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:9 - ID:7679144

    CAIRO, Nov 21 (MENA) - Minister of Planning Hala el Saeed lauded the good organization of 40th Cairo International Film Festival by Cairo Opera House. Saeed said the festival this year focuses on Arab women especially in light of the political ....

  • Culture minister: Cairo represents capital of Arab cinema

    Date: 2018-11-20 21:46:20 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:43 - ID:7679037

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) - Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem on Tuesday said that Cairo always represents the capital of Arab cinema, describing it as "Hollywood of the East". Delivering a speech at the opening of the 40th edition of the Cairo ....

  • 40th Cairo film festival kicks off

    Date: 2018-11-20 21:19:09 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:40 - ID:7679018

    CAIRO, Nov 20 (MENA) - The 40th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), taking place from 20-29 November, kicked off Tuesday at Al Manara International Conferences Center in Cairo's 5th settlement district. The opening ceremony ....

  • National Cinema Festival concluded

    Date: 2018-11-18 20:23:21 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:64 - ID:7675994

    CAIRO, Nov 18 (MENA) - Culture Minister Inas Abdel Dayem attended the closing ceremony of the 22nd edition of the National Egyptian Cinema Festival at Cairo Opera House. Abdel Dayem and Director of the National Film Festival Samir Seif gave ....

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