Egypt’s Sixth Annual Drum and Heritage Arts Festival will take place between 20 and 27 April, announced Intisar Abdel-Fattah, founder and president of the festival during a media conference on Tuesday in Cairo Opera House. Abdel-Fattah said that this year’s conference will include 22 countries: Sri Lanka, Estonia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, China, Maldives, Mexico, India, Greece, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Bulgaria, Poland, Thailand, Tunisia, Armenia, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Sudan and the host country Egypt.

Culture Minister Enas Abdel Dayem left for Germany on Tuesday to receive a music award that went to Cairo Steps, an international music ensemble consisting of Egyptian and German musicians. Cairo Steps merges and combines traditional Egyptian and oriental grooves with modern jazz improvisation, classical music and contemporary sounds.

A big surprise was awaiting the visitors of the famous Egyptian Museum in Cairo, as King Tutankhamun was their new personal tour guide, thanks to a new augmented reality (AR) project developed by an Egyptian researcher at the University of Staffordshire. King Tut appeared as a hologram arriving at the central exhibit where visitors can clearly see him virtually through a Microsoft’s HoloLens AR headset that combines the physical environment with a 3D virtual space.

The most popular performance of all time is back! With its combination of love, jealousy and drama, Opera Aida attracted the world for more than a century. Today, the incredible performance comes back to Egypt as it will be showing in the Cairo Opera House from April 17-20, according to the Cairo Opera House Facebook page. However, this time, the performance is Egyptian-made, with the director being the late Abdel-Moneim Kamel and the executive director being Hazem Tayel. The music will be played by the Cairo Orchestra, and the dances will be performed by the Cairo Ballet team, while the vocals will be performed by the Cairo Opera Choire.

With story settings ranging from the Parisian music scene to the invaded streets of Baghdad, the international edition of the prestigious British literary prize shortlists diverse titles all published independently.Six authors and their translators are competing for the €58,000 ($71,000) Man Booker International Prize, including four European language titles, one South Korean and an Arabic work by an Iraqi author. The prize is a counterpart to the Man Booker Prize for English-language novels and is open to books published in any language that have been translated into English.

55 beauty queens from different countries of the world arrived in Egypt on Monday to compete for the Miss World Competition 2018 for Tourism and Environment, which will be held for the third consecutive time in Egypt. The competition’s details will be released in press conference on April 11, in Bibliotheca Alexandria, Head of 2018 Miss World Competition Amal Rezq said.

The Egyptian-German excavation mission at Matariya, Heliopolis, uncovered roughly 4,500 fragments of King Psamtek I s quartzite colossus, parts of which were first discovered last year at the nearby Souq Al-Khamis archaeological site. Ayman Ashmawy, Head of the Ancient Egyptian antiquities department at the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, said that these fragments, along with the previously discovered 6,400 pieces, allow researchers to calculate the original size and shape of the colossus, which was deliberately destroyed.

Chef Amira Shanab, on CBC Sofra channel, recommended a number of drinks after eating fesikh and herring during Sham el-Nessim to reduce the severity of the effect of the salt-heavy meals on one’s health. Shanab recommended green tea, lemon mint juice, orange juice, mint tea, and soft drinks.

In its fifth edition this year, the Backstreet Festival will bring a tantalizing range of artistic activities to Alexandria, including films, clowning, creative visual technologies, pupets and an acappella band. Running between 12 and 16 April, the festival s events will be spread across several venues, including the Jesuit Cultural Center, the Saint Gabriel Sporting Club, the French Institute of Alexandria, the Spanish Consulate and the Teatro Eskendria.

Egyptian women dominated the top five spots on list of the Professional Squash Association ( PSA) World Tour, for April’s top 20 World Rankings, with four out of five squash professionals being Egyptian. The list was topped by the world number one in squash, Nour El-Sherbini, who has held first place 24 consecutive months. The 21-year-old champion was crowned in 2017 after the China Squash Open Women’s Championship to become the third Egyptian woman to be crowned world number one after Heba al-Torky and Raneem al-Weleily, who achieved the rank in 2008 and 2015 respectively. She moreover won the 2018 Women’s J.P. Morgan Tournament of Champions title in New York.

Students from the Blind Center of Assiut University performed a play on Monday entitled ‘Al-Fangry’ (The Pretender), during their participation in the 7th Theater Creativity Festival organized by the Performing Arts Department. President of Assiut University Ahmed Abdo Gaeas said following the performance that Assiut University’s administration has provided necessary support and care, including flexible educational, health, and social services, for the university’s students and staff with disabilities.

The renowned Egyptian author Ahmed Khaled Tawfik died on Monday at 55 after suffering from a long-term illness. He leaves behind a valuable heritage that is engraved in the hearts of many Egyptians. Tawfik, initially a medical doctor, is considered to be one of the most influential writers who shaped the character of Egypt’s youth in the early 1990s. His writing style appealed to both Egyptian and Arabic-speaking audiences.

The room is too small for over 20 people: singers and musicians. But no one seems to be bothered, and everyone focuses on what is more important: preparation to the group s first concert. We are in Da House, the cultural centre in Dokki, following a rehearsal by the AJAM choir. This is the ensemble founded by Moustafa Hussein, a singer with a portfolio of accomplishments in the field. As the concert date approaches, AJAM moves to the Vibe for Developing Arts, “an integrated music complex, offering the best services and complete solutions for all musicians” as it s description clarifies, a few floors down from Da House, in the same building. One of its studios serves as a location for the singers to finetune their repertoire.

Among diseases, diabetes is unique in its effects on the general health of the human being. It creeps silently, gradually causing complications that, if left untreated, can lead to complete deterioration of the body. Every year experts seek new ways of preventing the complications before they become inevitable, constantly highlighting the utmost importance of early detection.

For someone’s work in an artistic field that’s as detail-oriented as photography to be praised and lauded on an international platform is certainly an incredible achievement. This is exactly what Egyptian Bassam Allam was able to do, as he recently won the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards. The 29-year-old’s photo ‘Portrait of Adima’ has garnered him the 1st Place of Egypt National Award. The photo, along with another one under the title of ‘Through the Glass,’ have also been commended as part of the Portrait category of the Open Competition. Such plaudit isn’t to be taken lightly as the Sony World Photography Awards receive over 300,000 submissions from 210 countries and territories all over the world on a yearly basis, thus singling him out as one of the global elite photographers.

Continuing its chain of success, Kamla Abu Zekry’s film “A Day for Women” (Youm Lel Setat) is to be screened at the 27th Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina (FCAAAL) (African, Asian, and Latin American Film Festival) in Milan, Italy.

Set on the rooftop of Al-Jameel Center, within the Greek Campus of the American University in Cairo, Lookout in an interactive performance that invites spectators to look at downtown Cairo from above, while imagining the future of our old city through the eyes of Egyptian children. The piece is programmed within the theatre section of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) and performed over several days in March and April.

Hollywood filmmakers and representatives of the History Channel expressed their willingness to film movies in Egypt during a meeting with Tourism Minister Rania al-Mashat on Monday on the sidelines of the Tutankhamun exhibition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, which saw the discussion of ideas to promote Egyptian tourism. The minister said that movies are an important means of tourism promotion, given the importance of cinema and its wide reach around the world.

Australian academics could help unlock mysteries around ancient Egypt after discovering that a 2,500-year old coffin might contain the remains of a prestigious mummy. The University of Sydney acquired the coffin 150 years ago and a series of academics incorrectly classified it as empty.

Auction house Christie’s is set to be auctioning off 27 Ancient Egyptian artefacts in New York on April 18, their website shows, with some rare pieces on display that include a statue of Sekhem-ankh-Ptah, an ancient Egyptian high official who lived during the Old Kingdom period (2389-2255 B.C.), as well as masks of mummies from the Roman period.

Look, look how she walks down the stairs. It s moving. Oh, look…” The little girl behind me gave her mother a running commentary on every move of actor or shadow at the Lula Del Ray manual cinema performance. Staged several times between 10 and 13 March, it is part of the eighth Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children (8-13 March), an annual event that aims to bring theatre and other art forms to children. The event takes place at the Hanager Arts Centre expanding into the neighbouring grounds and venues.