Culture and Art

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  • Egypt, Azerbaijan discuss fostering cultural relations

    Date: 2016-05-18 12:34:04 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:38 - ID:4932145

    CAIRO, May 18 (MENA) - Culture Minister Helmi el Namnam discussed on Wednesday with newly-appointed Azerbaijani Ambassador to Egypt Tural Rzayev bilateral cooperation during the coming period. They also tackled means of deepening bilateral ....

  • Coop. deal inked bet. Museum of Islamic Art, Louvre

    Date: 2016-05-15 19:14:20 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:95 - ID:4914793

    CAIRO, May 15 (MENA) – Antiquities Minister Khaled el Anani and French Ambassador to Egypt Andre Parant witnessed on Sunday the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Museum of Islamic Art and the Louvre Museum. The deal was inked by ....

  • Morocco to be LAFF's guest of honor

    Date: 2016-05-15 15:51:21 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:75 - ID:4912653

    CANNES, May 15 (MENA) - Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) announced Morocco will be invited as guest of honor of the sixth edition due next March 2017 given its high qualitative and quantitative film production that generally supports African ....

  • Egypt Emb participates in Tianjin Univ cultural fair

    Date: 2016-05-15 07:24:15 GMT - China - Culture and Art - SN:5 - ID:4909169

    BEIJING, May 15 (MENA) - The Egyptian Embassy here participated Sunday in a cultural fair at the national Chinese University of Tianjin to mark the 2016 Egyptian-Chinese cultural year. It was attended by Egyptian students from various Chinese ....

  • 38th Cairo Int'l Film Festival to be announced in Cannes on Sunday

    Date: 2016-05-13 22:47:07 GMT - France - Culture and Art - SN:101 - ID:4902805

    CANNES, France, May 13 (MENA) – The 38th Cairo International Film Festival will be announced in a press conference on Sunday on the sidelines of Cannes Film Festival 2016 in southern France. The festival will be held on November 15-24, its head ....

  • Several diplomats laud German efforts to protect cultural property

    Date: 2016-05-10 07:50:06 GMT - Germany - Culture and Art - SN:8 - ID:4876949

    BERLIN, May 10 (MENA) - Several ambassadors of foreign countries in Berlin voiced their appreciation of the German government for its proposal to amend the legislative framework of the German cultural property protection act, which will be debated ....

  • Red Sea governor, culture minister probe means of developing cultural sector

    Date: 2016-05-05 13:51:43 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:83 - ID:4849297

    HURGHADA, May 5 (MENA) - Red Sea Governor Ahmed Abdullah met Thursday with the Culture Minister Helmy Namnam who inspected Hurghada Culture Palace to discuss developing the cultural sector in the governorate. During the meeting, the governor ....

  • Actor Wael Nour dies at age 55

    Date: 2016-05-02 17:32:23 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:52 - ID:4832677

    CAIRO, May 2 (MENA) – Actor Wael Nour died at age 55 years old on Monday in his house in Alexandria. Head of the Actors' Syndicate Ashraf Zaki said the actor's family is currently moving his body from Alexandria to Cairo. He added that he does ....

  • Ministerial committee to inspect Rosetta's archaeological sites

    Date: 2016-05-01 20:32:00 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:62 - ID:4828529

    CAIRO, May 1 (MENA) - A Ministerial committee is planned Tuesday to pay an inspection tour to archaeological sites of the Delta city of Rosetta. The committee gathers Culture Minister Helmy el Namnam, Antiquities Minister Khalid el Anani, Kafr el ....

  • Culture minister denis sacking writers' union chief

    Date: 2016-04-30 09:11:34 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:16 - ID:4818737

    CAIRO, April 30 (MENA) - Culture Minister Helmy el Namnam denied issuing a decision to sack head of the Writers' Union. Speaking to MENA, Namnam said that the Culture Ministry was keen from the beginning not to interfere in the crisis in the ....

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