Said Mrad is a world famous Lebanese DJ on the cutting edge of song remixing. He is most popular for reinvigorating Oriental music with his remixes of classical Arabic musicians and contemporary dance beats. Mrad sat down with The Daily Star Egypt, (...)
In the barren expanse of the Eastern Desert, under the clarity of a seamless blue sky, lies a historic and often overlooked monastery.
Although the monastery ranks amongst travel book highlights, its distance from better-recognized monuments has (...)
In a small, archetypal "white cube gallery, two artists opened a joint exhibit with resounding resistance to conventional space.
But while the Mashrabia gallery space is standard by contemporary norms, the gallery breaks with Cairo's modernist (...)
Settled on the terrace veranda of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Agatha Christie began writing one of her famous murder mysteries. Soaking in the heat of the sun, watching the beauty of the gliding felucca sails, the sparkling waterfront, and (...)
Cairo's student population has jumped aboard the Internet social sensation with the amiable, yet addictive Facebook.
Designed in 2004 by two students from Harvard University, Facebook has become one of the fastest growing networks among teens and (...)
Shems Friedlander retrospective breathes spirituality into the Gezira Art Center
Shems Friedlander is an artist and a sheikh.
While he is known as a professor, author, filmmaker, poet, photographer, graphic designer, and painter, his views on (...)