The greens of Taba Heights
Taba Heights’ championship golf course recently hosted the annual Pro Am Invitational Golf Tournament. Daily News Egypt went to have a look
Adel Heine
194 Articles
DNE Art & Culture, and Lifestyle Editor
Latest by Adel Heine
The green world of Khadra
Family run Khadra is one of the places where you can find a large variety of home grown plants, shrubs and trees
A wall of remembrance
Photo exhibition at the Presidential Palace
New arrivals on the shelves
New books this month
Revolution revisited
Adel Heine’s weekly column
Talk like an Egyptian
Adel Heine’s weekly column
CIFF postpones opening night
With the festival coinciding with a growing unrest in the country and opening on the same day as proposed political rallies, CIFF issued several statements before making the decision to postpone the opening ceremony altogether.
The District Egypt, coworking in Cairo
The District caters to a variety of clients, from IT and accounting to architecture, digital marketing and handicrafts
Tahrir vendors
Vendors still supply protesters with any sustenance they may need
Movie previews
Argo, Dredd 3D, and Stolen
Men don’t cry
Egyptians are prone to touch each other during conversations and often call each other habibi, while dude seems to be as far as foreign men are willing to go.
The Riff Band: quality music for a decade
The band’s anniversary show promises many surprises, including backing vocalists, a string quartet and professional jazz dancers
El Gouna has it all
An Egyptian resort town on the up
Nūn celebrates first anniversary
Nūn offers more than alternative therapies; yoga classes, contemporary dance classes to Tai Chi, and Chi Quong.
Buying used books anywhere in Egypt
The Bookspot advertised for used books and visited leaving ex-pats to buy up what they did not want to take back home
Colourful testaments
Colourful graffitis in Mohamed Mahmoud Street
Saving the south of Egypt’s coast
The 3Alganoob programme is slated to start in April 2013 and will involve a conference, a workshop and other activities.
New in the Movies
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part 2, The Words, Girl in progress, and Frankenweenie
The wrath of righteous scissors
Adel Heine’s weekly column on women and scissors
Preserving the past by recreating it
Tutankhamen’s tomb facsimile arrives in Egypt
Online gallery ArtsMart launched
“We had the idea in 2009 to create a space where up and coming artists could display their work, since it is hard to find galleries that will show work of young artists,” Mowafy said. “At the same time it is not easy for interested buyers to find affordable art; many people are looking to find something to hang on their wall but are not in the market to buy investment art.”
The white gold of Egypt
Egyptian cotton is renowned the world over for its quality. It is transformed into sumptuous bed sheets or into made to measure, button-down shirts and that are worn by the worlds rich and famous are sold in glittering high-end stores for small fortunes. The cotton starts much more humbly though and this time of year …
This is Egypt: Sherif Karas
Photography in Egypt is often seen as a means to a commercial end, disregarding the fact the people behind the camera are artists. This is Egypt, as seen by talented photographers.
Nihal Wahby’s solo exhibition engages and inspires
The paintings exhibited are separated in two series,I Want To Be Free and The Path
Judging a woman by her cover
Adel Heine’s weekly column
Rock of Asia: acoustic music from Japan
Rock of Asia will stay in Cairo for one week and will be performing in several different venues
Vertical fun: rock climbing in Sinai
Egypt has a lot to offer and rock climbing can now be added to the list
Mosireen receives full support
The social media offensive worked like a charm, because as the minutes ticked down the final count of the donations reached $40,415 which will guarantee that Mosireen will be able to continue their work for another year.
Time for soup
Pumpkins are waiting to be turned into delicious soup.
Great divas of cinema in Zamalek
All films will feature renowned Egyptian, Dutch or Flemish actresses, female producers or directors