The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how locals imagine far-off landscapes, idealise nature and define beauty.

The pastiche-style poster art ubiquitous in Egyptian houses and businesses reveals how locals imagine far-off landscapes, idealise nature and define beauty.

The bustling streets of the Nile Delta city of al-Sharqiya should be a stronghold for Muslim Brotherhood-backed Egyptian President, Mohamed Mursi. But as ...

Egyptian artist and graphic designer Adam Abd El Ghaffar will give a talk on Egyptian movie posters over the past 100 years on Wednesday 19 October at Cairo's Photopia.

The Art of Egyptian Film Posters collects together old Egyptian film posters from the 1930s to the 1990s, when they were painted by hand, and did not depend on graphic design.

Art historian Eva Kernbauer, from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, says male nudes have been around for a long time, but the way nude men and women have been depicted has always differed.