Egyptian actress, comedian and dancer Lebleba at opening ceremony of 46th Cairo International Film Festival. AFP

Cairo International Film Festival opens with reflection and restored classics

Highlights include global storytelling, film restoration and tributes to artists whose work shaped the region’s screen history

Film & TV

Exhibition brings art to Pyramids of Giza, with some work forged from conflict

Art & Design

New UN draft on way for Gaza stabilisation force, says Egypt's Foreign Minister

MENA

Egyptian mediators in Gaza to resolve standoff over trapped Hamas fighters

MENA

Egypt fears Gaza force could turn into tool of occupation

MENA

Voter apathy looms over Egypt's parliamentary elections

MENA

Art Cairo returning to Grand Egyptian Museum in January

Art & Design
A visitor draped in the Egyptian flag looks at the Statue of Ramesses II in the Grand Egyptian Museum. EPA

Past glories and present problems: Grand Egyptian Museum sparks national pride as well as debate

Egypt’s new cultural landmark has become a source of national pride and a mirror of the country’s economic strain

MENA

Grand Egyptian Museum: What the opening ceremony said about the country

Art & Design

Step inside the lavish life and death of Tutankhamun at Grand Egyptian Museum

Culture

Egyptians go to polls to choose a new legislature

MENA

Qatari Diar signs $29.7bn North Coast development deal with Egypt

Gulf

King Tut's coffin to Khufu's boat: What's inside the Grand Egyptian Museum?

News

What is happening in Sudan? How two generals' pursuit of power threatens to split country

MENA
Egypt's new administrative capital. The signing ceremony is set to take place at the Cabinet headquarters in the presence of Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly. Getty Images

Qatari Diar signs $29.7bn North Coast development deal with Egypt

Deal includes $3.5bn land payment and $26.2bn in‑kind investment to develop a new Mediterranean destination at Alam Al Roum

Gulf

King Tut's coffin to Khufu's boat: What's inside the Grand Egyptian Museum?

News

What is happening in Sudan? How two generals' pursuit of power threatens to split country

MENA

Israel in talks over fate of Hamas fighters trapped behind Gaza's 'yellow line'

MENA

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