CAIRO: Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni was questioned by prosecutors over the Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen last week from a local museum. Although no charges have been filed, many in Egypt are calling for the minister to resign or be removed from power. Hosni told reporters on Monday after the meeting with [...]

CAIRO: The upcoming presidential elections and the ruling National Democratic Party’s (NDP) potential candidate, the electricity outages that was linked to exporting gas and the theft of a of a Vincent Van Gogh painting stolen from a prominent museum in Giza, as well as the criticism of the government for the lack of strict security [...]

CAIRO: A large red granite false door belonging to the tomb of Queen Hatshepsut’s vizier User and his wife Toy has been unearthed in front of Karnak Temple in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor, the ministry of culture announced on Monday. Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced the find, adding that this discovery was [...]

CAIRO: The Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni said that Egypt bears the expenses of the restoration of all Jewish antiquities being restored in the country. He added that like the rest of the Egyptian antiquities whether ancient Egyptian, Islamic or Coptic, Egypt “considers the Jewish temples in Egypt as part of the Egyptian heritage, [...]

CAIRO: The Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced on Thursday that Egypt restored 25,000 pieces of antiquities from Britain, some dating to the middle of the Stone Age, 200,000 B.C. Hosni said that “some of the pieces date back to the middle Stone Age, while other pieces date back to the pre-civilizations period and [...]

Cairo: Farouk Hosni, the Egyptian Minister of Culture, said that the Salafists fundamentalists who adhere to a very strict interpretation of Islam, are responsible for the state of degradation and underdevelopment in Egypt, and that they try to influence the religious sentiments of the people for their own interests. These comments came after a meeting [...]

CAIRO: Egypt’s Ministry of Culture announced on Thursday that it had lifted a 9-ton gate of the goddess Isis, carved out of red granite and discovered in the port area on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, out of the its resting place below the sea. The gate is one of the rare artifacts [...]

CAIRO: A peace treaty signed usually signifies a thawing of relations, both political and cultural, but in Egypt, there never was a cultural relaxation of policies pertaining to Israel. In the 30 years since the Camp David accords were signed, cultural institutions in Egypt remain staunchly opposed to normalization with Israel, on all levels, from [...]