CAIRO, Ramadan Al-Fatash (dpa)- Egypt on Sunday opened a museum commemorating internationally renowned writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, some 13 years after it was first planned. Mahfouz, the...
POTSDAM, GERMANY (dpa)- Following the success of an exhibition of the late work of Pablo Picasso, the Barberini Museum in Potsdam next to Berlin is launching a new show with 54 masterpieces from the...
BERLIN (dpa)- Artur Brauner, one of the most successful German film producers, died on Sunday at the age of 100 in Berlin, his family announced. Brauner died peacefully in his sleep, they said. Born...
Dresden, Germany (dpa) - The Richard Wagner sites in Graupa near Dresden were presented with an original sketch by the composer on Wednesday on the occasion of the 206th anniversary of his birth....
Cannes - With the thud of shells exploding all around them in the dark, a terrified young couple sneak past lines of Syrian troops back into besieged Aleppo, their six-month-old daughter Sama...
Venice, Italy - The Venice Biennale, one of the most important art festivals in the world, opens this week with an edition called "May You Live in Interesting Times." The fair, curated by...
New York -By Helen Corbett, - A drawing by Nelson Mandela of the prison cell where he was held for years fetched more than 112,000 dollars at an auction in New York on Thursday. Mandela, South...
Paris - The debate in France over the huge donations being pledged to restore Notre Dame Cathedral needs to be conducted in a calm and open-minded manner, a cultural heritage adviser to the...
Cairo - An award-winning Egyptian photojournalist, Mahmoud Abu Zeid, known as Shawkan, was released on Monday after more than five years in prison. A post on his Twitter account said he was...
The Berlinale would have been a chance for China to show off its cinema. Instead, it's Beijing's censors that are on full show. Berlin (dpa) – China's film industry had hoped this year's...