The eye-popping posters that promoted Egyptian films
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination
The photographer who created Cairo in his own image
Van Leo’s portraits capture a lost world and are in a class of their own, writes Raphael Cormack
Golden boy – the timeless appeal of Tutankhamun
A century after the discovery of his tomb, our interest in the teenage pharaoh says more about the present than the past
‘A real hit parade of work from almost every country in the Arab world’
An important survey of abstract Arab art throws up questions about the influences swirling around in the post-war period
Life was a cabaret – the Roaring Twenties in Cairo
Most traces of the city’s early 20th-century nightlife have now disappeared. Only the shells of former casinos and theatres hint at this bygone era
The modern Arab artists who have turned to words
A century of writing by and about artists from the Arab world is full of debates that still resonate today
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Surrealism in Egypt was an international affair that lost out to more nationalist art movements
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