During their childhood, all women had a special box full of elaborate hair accessories that they saved for special occasions. Each box harboured a pink butterfly that was added on a certain birthday, as well as a glittery bobby pin that was set to come out every year on the first day of school.

Australian star Nicole Kidman says her experience as the mother of adopted children meant she closely related to her character in the movie "Lion", tipped as an Oscar favourite.

With the aim of celebrating the international day of the Arabic language and raising awareness about its outstanding beauty and value, the faculty of fine arts in Zamalek hosted its second yearly exhibition titled “Painting the Arabic”.

Nine movies have made the cut to compete for a nomination for the best foreign-language film Oscar, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Thursday.

A film script annotated by Marilyn Monroe sold for $25,000 at Nate D. Sanders Auctions in Los Angeles on Thursday night.

The nominations for the Golden Globes will be unveiled Monday, with critics expecting musical "La La Land" to lead the pack ahead of "Moonlight," "Manchester by the Sea" and "Lion." In a departure from last year's awards calendar, the announcements come before the influential Screen Actors Guild nominations, making them the first major bellwether of momentum going into the Oscars race.

Prominent actress Zubaida Tharwat shut her eyes for the last time Tuesday night at the age of 76, after a long battle with illness, according to Hona Al-Asema (Here’s the Capital) programme, aired on privately owned TV channel CBC.

Egypt's Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany said Thursday that work started in late November on the Baron Empain Palace of Heliopolis, in preparation for the first phase of reconstruction and architectural restoration of the palace.

Over the past few years, posting home videos and online reality shows on social media became a part of the daily lives of hundreds of young Egyptian people who thought that this would be a good way to express their opinions freely and attract a number of followers and fans. Posting videos about travelling, cooking, makeup tutorials, fashion, and random life situations became a new trend and an innovative way to make money.

Dreamy musical "La La Land", set in modern-day Los Angeles, topped nominations for the Golden Globes on Monday, as Hollywood's awards seasons revs up in the march to the Oscars.

Walt Disney fans can buy a piece of history on Friday, when the late animation entrepreneur's signed will and other Disney collectibles go up for auction on Friday.

We always say that we don’t elaborate on words, but rather we walk the walk, and today this is exactly what we are doing," a beaming Mai Zein El-Din says as she took to the podium before taking a step back to bring forward her amazing staff.

Emma Morano, thought to be the world's oldest person and the last to be born in the 1800s, celebrated her 117th birthday on Tuesday, still swearing by her diet of two raw eggs a day.

Actor Brad Pitt's request to seal court documents in his high-profile custody and divorce proceedings involving actress Angelina Jolie was rejected by a Los Angeles judge on Wednesday.

For the second time, the Goethe-Institute in Alexandria in partnership with the Planetarium Science Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) is hosting a new edition of the Science Film Festival between 29 November and 19 December. This year, the theme of “Material Science” was selected to create an understanding of how materials can be put together, how they can be used, and how they can be changed and used to do amazing things.

Cairo is filled with art showrooms that display various pieces and work. Starting from paintings, to sculptures, all the way to photography, each platform presents a talented artist who is unique and stands out among others. But to have one huge area combining all different walks of art in its different forms … that is something rarely found in Egypt. However, soon enough this will be found here at the Cairo Art Fair II.

The calendar is published by the Pirelli company’s United Kingdom subsidiary and is usually distributed as a gift to a small number of celebrities and clients. The calendar has typically been an assortment of nude and semi-nude photographs, but the 2016 and 2017 calendars have seemingly broken away from that tradition.

Photography has always been a form of stating reality. It’s the window through which people can look into the lives of others and the portrait that displays their daily life events.

Maher Hamoud has spent much of his professional life as a journalist. The bulk of that time was spent working in his home country of Egypt, always deeply rooted in the events on the street even during his tenure as editor-in-chief of this very paper. Hamoud is a trained economist, an experienced journalist, and an outspoken commentator on Egypt, the Middle East, and “East-West” relations. It is perhaps surprising then that the first book he would publish is not a treatise on modern politics or socioeconomics. Instead, Hamoud has written a travel memoir that is deeply personal yet accessible to any reader who has ever had to navigate the awkwardness of a new culture.

France and the United Arab Emirates on Saturday launched a $100 million fund to protect heritage sites threatened by extremism and conflict after the destruction last month of an ancient palace by Islamic State militants in Iraq.

Despite its theatrical release, "Jackie" by all rights should have been a cable-TV movie. Indeed, in many respects it's a sort-of companion to HBO's recent stage adaptation "All the Way," which picked up in virtually the same window, with Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as president.