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Russian culture center organizes caricature exhibition in Cairo Wednesday
Date: 2016-01-19 19:14:53 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:90 - ID:4148377
CAIRO, Jan 19 (MENA) - The Russian Culture Center will organize on Wednesday a caricature exhibition in cooperation with the Egyptian Caricature Association and the Federation of Cartoonist Organizations (FECO). The first-of-its-kind fair will be ....
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Calls for Oscar boycott grow over lack of non-white nominees
Date: 2016-01-19 07:27:31 GMT - USA - Culture and Art - SN:8 - ID:4142845
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (MENA) - As calls for a boycott of this year's Academy Awards over the all-white list of acting nominees intensifies, the academy's president issued a statement late Monday promising a more intense drive to diversify the largely ....
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Azhar Grand Imam attends launch of Kuwait Capital of Islamic Culture festival
Date: 2016-01-18 21:13:37 GMT - Kuwait - Culture and Art - SN:119 - ID:4142013
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 18 (MENA) – Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb on Monday attended here the celebrations of "Kuwait Capital of Islamic Culture 2016" and the Al-Qurain Cultural Festival, which kicked off in Kuwait under the auspices of Kuwaiti Prime ....
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Environment minister opens fossil museum in Fayyoum
Date: 2016-01-14 20:02:27 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:125 - ID:4116581
FAYYOUM, Egypt, Jan 14 (MENA) – Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy inaugurated a fossil museum in Fayyoum on Thursday. The new fossil museum of Wadi Al Hitan “Whale Valley” displays valuable fossil remains of whales and sharks unearthed in the ....
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Awqaf min. to partake in first forum for Arab intellectuals in UAE
Date: 2016-01-12 22:23:13 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:128 - ID:4102737
CAIRO, Jan 12 (MENA) – Minister of Awqaf Mohamed Mokhtar Gomaa will take part in the first forum for Arab intellectuals, said a statement by the Ministry on Tuesday. The forum will kick off in the United Arab Emirates capital Abu Dhabi on Sunday, ....
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Two AUC professors win international translation award
Date: 2016-01-11 17:25:27 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:74 - ID:4093717
CAIRO, Jan 11 (MENA) – Two professors at the American University in Cairo won the third prize in Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding. Ferial Ghazoul, an English language and comparative literature professor, and ....
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Beijing opera house hosts news conference on Egypt-China culture year
Date: 2016-01-11 15:47:47 GMT - China - Culture and Art - SN:63 - ID:4092433
BEIJING, Jan 11 (MENA) – The Beijing opera house hosted a news conference on the Egypt-China Culture Year 2016 in the presence of Egyptian Ambassador here Magdi Amer. Addressing the conference, Amer said Egypt was the first Arab and African ....
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Press conf. in Beijing to announce details of Egyptian-Chinese cultural year
Date: 2016-01-10 08:44:42 GMT - China - Culture and Art - SN:21 - ID:4083061
BEIJING, Jan 10 (MENA) - A press conference will be held Monday in Beijing opera house in presence of Egypt's Ambassador to China Magdy Amer to announce the details of the celebration of the Egyptian-Chinese cultural year 2016. The activities of ....
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PM to attend opening of Nile Museum in Aswan Sunday
Date: 2016-01-09 18:58:11 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:107 - ID:4081777
CAIRO, Jan 9 (MENA) – Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, Culture Minister Helmy el Namnam and Irrigation Minister Hossam Moghazi will take part in the inauguration of the Nile Museum in Aswan on Sunday. The museum features hundreds of photos and ....
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Culture minister, S. Sinai governor inaugurate theater festival in Sharm
Date: 2016-01-09 07:03:51 GMT - Egypt - Culture and Art - SN:8 - ID:4076789
CAIRO, Jan 9 (MENA) - Culture Minister Helmy el Namnam and South Sinai governor Khaled Fouda inaugurated the first edition of the Youth Theater International Festival in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el Sheikh on Friday night. The event is ....
