by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 13, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Ballet dancer Fady el-Nabarawy feels he can finally breathe again the moment he enters the gates of the Cairo Opera House after a commute from his ramshackle, poor neighborhood. This is where he and his fellow dancers practice, perform, love and create. “Every...
by Hisham Adra | Aug 10, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture
Damascus-The Syrian General Authority for Books has issued the Arabic translation of the book “from Stories of Ballet” translated and edited by Mohammed Hanana. This book, which is composed of 170 pages, is written by a number of European researchers and includes an...
by Mohamed Zangeneh | Feb 23, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—As part of a series of cultural and artistic exhibitions planned this year, the world-famous Kiev Ballet performed in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, to celebrate the city being chosen as the Arab Tourism Capital for 2014. The...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 23, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
Reuters, Cairo—Gangs of New York seems a fitting favorite movie for Egypt’s new culture minister, a film studies professor who styles himself an outsider fighting to break the hold of a privileged elite over spending on the arts. Artists enraged that he fired...
by Amir Taheri | Jun 4, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—If each month could have a different name, what would be a more suitable name for the month of May? To those interested in modernism, it might be the “Rite of Spring.” A hundred years ago, the first performance of The Rite of Spring...
