When the legacy of eastern oriental music harmonically combines with the tempo of modern jazz music, a beautiful, heart-touching rhythm naturally finds its way to the audience’s hearts, leaving them joyfully ecstatic from the mixture of traditional songs and new tracks. Inside the walls of the citadel, history retells its stories through music that takes the audience to another world of which only melodies underline its reality.

Since the beginning of the year, the German archaeological mission operating at the King Amenhotep III Temple area in Luxor has discovered parts from 66 statues of the Pharaonic goddess Sekhmet, the Antiquities Ministry's official Facebook page reported on Wednesday.

Military museums will offer free entry to visitors between March 9-15 on the occasion of Martyrs Day. This promotion applies to the 6th of October Panorama, Alamein and Port Said military museums, according to military spokesperson Tamer al-Refaei on Facebook.

Since the early hours of Tuesday, dozens of children have been running across the Hanager Arts Centre in Cairo, as the performance halls fill with attentive young audiences and more groups arrive at the Opera House grounds in buses. The children are eager to experience the first day of the 7th Hakawy International Arts Festival for Children, an annual event organised by AFCA for Arts and Culture, and a rare platform bringing plays and theatre workshops to young audiences.

Aajibaichi Shaala is not your ordinary school in India. The students at the "Grandmothers school" in the village of Fangane are elderly women who are getting the chance to learn to read. "I love going to school," Kamal Keshavtupange, 60, told Reuters as she washed clothes outside her home in the village, 120 km (75 miles) east of the financial capital, Mumbai.

At first glance, the Cairo art installation appears to be a mural in red and purple hues, of three people at a table. Then, one of the subjects pours bright pink paint from a teapot into a cup. Another lights a cigarette, and the scene comes into focus.

Commemorating the 93rd birthday of the legendary belly dancer Samia Gamal, Google changed its doodle with pictures of Gamal’s most famous artistic moves she was known for.

In an attempt to promote tourism and support foreigners’ visits to Egypt, American movie star Will Smith arrived to Egypt on Sunday morning with his family for a short visit, according to a statement published by the Ministry of Antiquities’ official Facebook page.

On its 10th anniversary, the Cairo International Women’s Film Festival announced its 2017 program which will take place between 4 and 9 March and include 59 films from more than 23 countries.

Each year countries across the globe dedicate 3 March to World Hearing Loss Day to shed light on a medical condition that devastate the lives of many, although through awareness and early intervention it can be largely minimised.

Through our designs, we aim to make every bag a statement, with a story that explains its details,” says co-founder Bags are a life necessity for women across the globe. While men are usually more concerned about a bag’s functionality, women are often more focused on its exterior. Every season, high-end brands fiercely compete to launch the new IT bag.

An accountant for the Academy Awards botched the meticulous procedure for announcing the Oscar for best picture when he handed victory to "La La Land" before declaring "Moonlight" the real winner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said on Monday.

It is 5:30 am and the quiet city of Aswan witnesses around 1,000 men, women and children marching along the scenic Nile corniche to reach Doret El-Nil garden in front of the Aswan Governorate building. Far from any usual Friday morning, the first-ever marathon to take place in the Upper Egyptian capital was due to start, honored by the presence and participation of renowned heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub.

Meryl Streep on Saturday accused designer Karl Lagerfeld of spoiling her night at the Academy Awards ceremony by falsely accusing her of being paid to wear a gown on the Oscars red carpet. Streep was responding to a claim earlier this week by Lagerfeld that the "Sophie's Choice" actress had decided against wearing a Chanel gown at Sunday's Oscar ceremony because she could get paid by wearing a dress from a different designer.

Each year, millions of people around the world gather to watch the Oscars. Although the ceremony was only broadcasted to a number of pay-TV channels, millions of Egyptians managed to watch it on various live-streaming links on the internet. The 89th Academy Awards witnessed moments of shock, embarrassment, and sarcasm.

A young volunteer in the Syrian search-and-rescue group featured in an Academy Award-winning documentary said Monday he hopes the award will help stop "massacres" in his country, and described a US decision to block him from traveling to Los Angeles for the Oscars as "America's loss."

On their way to this year's Oscars, Dev Patel searched for his Indian roots, Denzel Washington wrestled with racism as an angry African-American patriarch and Octavia Spencer became a top black female mathematician. With seven nominations for actors and actresses of color, the Oscars this year have been touted as an improvement on diversity after two years of #OscarsSoWhite criticism.

On their way to this year's Oscars, Dev Patel searched for his Indian roots, Denzel Washington wrestled with racism as an angry African-American patriarch and Octavia Spencer became a top black female mathematician.

Poor education, widespread superstitions, increasing poverty, and high rates of female gentile mutilation (FGM) have always been major problems that women suffer from in many cities of Upper Egypt. However, no one so far has come close to properly analysing the current problems and challenges that encounter women living in such areas.

Gathering in the heart of Garden City, many dance professionals and enthusiasts met for a static night, all about humanity’s most animated form of expression. The last day of the contemporary dance festival, 5 Ra2s, by Cairo Contemporary Dance Center (CCDC) took Cairo’s community of dancers to ROOM art space for a movie screening and a following talk.

Gowns worn by Princess Diana for everything from meeting diplomats to dancing with movie stars feature in an exhibition celebrating the fashion of one of Britain's favorite royals, which opens in London this week. The collection of 25 dresses will be displayed from Friday for the rest of the year in Kensington Palace, where she lived for over 15 years. The exhibition coincides with the 20th anniversary of her death.