Culture and Art

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  • New Valley marks 100th birthday anniv. of late president Gamal Abdel Nasser

    Date: 2018-01-12 15:07:10 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:47 - ID:7187299

    KHARGA, Egypt, Jan 12 (MENA) – The Culture Directorate at New Valley governorate will hold a celebration on Monday to mark the 100th birthday anniversary of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In statements on Friday, Undersecretary of the New ....

  • Feqi: BA to confront all forms of extremism

    Date: 2018-01-09 12:07:51 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:43 - ID:7181982

    ALEXANDRIA, Jan 9 (MENA) - The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has started a new program to deal directly with all kinds of extremism to stamp it out from Egypt, said BA director Mostafa el Feqi has said. In statements Tuesday, Feqi said recent ....

  • ENLA announces 2018 as year of heritage

    Date: 2018-01-02 16:26:37 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:82 - ID:7171246

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) - Ministry of Culture's Egyptian National Library and Archives (ENLA) decided Tuesday to declare 2018 as a year of heritage and society. Head of the ENLA Ahmed el Shoki said the ENLA will focus on its activities and ....

  • GEBO to hold press conference on details of upcoming Cairo book fair

    Date: 2018-01-02 14:50:41 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:65 - ID:7171081

    CAIRO, Jan 2 (MENA) – The General Egyptian Book Organization (GEBO) will hold a press conference on January 10 to reveal the details of the 49th edition of the Cairo International Book Fair, to be organized from January 27 through February 10 at the ....

  • S. Korean cultural center to boost cultural exchange with Egypt in 2018

    Date: 2017-12-31 16:15:45 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:60 - ID:7168181

    CAIRO, Dec 31 (MENA) - Director of the South Korean Cultural Center in Cairo Park Jay Yang said Sunday that 2018 is most likely to witness more activities and technical workshops aimed at boosting cultural and technical exchange between Egypt and ....

  • Nat'l Library receives French Institute For Oriental Archaeology delegation

    Date: 2017-12-14 14:08:39 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:54 - ID:7140282

    CAIRO, Dec 14 (MENA) – The Egyptian National Library and Archives received on Thursday a delegation from the French Institute For Oriental Archaeology that inspected the most important manuscripts and papyri in the library. The delegation ....

  • Culture min. to open 32nd session of Egyptian Writers Conference Friday

    Date: 2017-12-14 08:34:45 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:15 - ID:7139687

    CAIRO, Dec 14 (MENA) - Culture Minister Helmy el Namnam will open on Friday the 32nd session of the annual Egyptian Writers Conference in Sharm el Sheikh city. The four-day event will be attended by 500 writers and intellectuals from all over ....

  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina participates in celebration marking establishment of Alexandria

    Date: 2017-12-12 12:42:08 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:50 - ID:7136652

    ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT, Dec 12 (MENA) - Bibliotheca Alexandrina Director Mostafa El Feky left Tuesday for Greece, heading a delegation, to participate in a ceremony to be held at an international conference in Athens marking 24 centuries of the ....

  • Palestine's Habayeb wins 2017 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature

    Date: 2017-12-11 18:21:36 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:77 - ID:7135819

    CAIRO, Dec 11 (MENA) – The American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press) announced on Monday that Palestinian writer Huzama Habayeb won the 2017 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for her powerful work "Velvet" described by the judges as "a new ....

  • MoU signed between Ain Shams, London South Bank universities

    Date: 2017-12-10 15:30:11 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:52 - ID:7133778

    CAIRO, Dec 10 (MENA) - A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been inked Sunday between Ain Shams and London South Bank universities to promote research and scientific cooperation between the both sides. During signing the MoU, Minister of Higher ....

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