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Culture: Egypt

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al-Ahram (http://www.ahram.org.eg/)
The most important Arabic newspaper in the Arab world and particularly for Egypt.

Al-Bawaba (http://albawaba.com/en/countries/Egypt)
Major portal site that links to a number of other websites on all the Arab countries. Up-to-date information on the political, business, social, cultural and religious aspects of a particular country. Click on the name of the country for information in English and Arabic.

Aldokkan (http://aldokkan.com/)
“Aldokkan is dedicated for students and beginners desiring an elementary study of ancient Egypt on a comparative method; by this approach students may better understand the Egyptian Civilization by comparing the main aspects of each chronological period.”

ArabsArt.com (http://www.arabsart.com/art/search/Egypt/)
This Arab art directory offers links searchable by country.

Arab Art Gallery (http://www.arabartgallery.com/)
Categories include Islamic paintings, Islamic prints, Oriental, realism, abstract, symbolic, Jerusalem.

Arts of the Islamic World (Freer and Sackler Galleries) (http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/islamicHome.htm)
The phrases “arts of the Islamic World” and “Islamic art” refer to a variety of artistic traditions that have flourished since the advent of Islam in the late seventh century across a vast geographic area.... While different regions developed their own distinctive styles, the resulting artwork shared several characteristics inspired by their common religion, such as the use of calligraphy to transform simple objects into works of art and the use of abstract geometric designs to decorate the Koran, the holy text of Islam.

Egypt Centre [The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities] (http://www.swan.ac.uk/egypt/)
The Egypt Centre consists of part of the collection of the pharmacist Sir Henry Wellcome from the turn of the 20th century. It has been in the keeping of University of Wales, Swansea, since the early 1970s.

Egypt Daily (http://www.egyptdaily.com/)
"Latest news from the World News Network." A news site containing the latest news, current affairs and information on Egypt.

The Egyptian Castle (http://www.egyptiancastle.com/movies/current.htm)
As cinema is such a huge part of modern Egypt, this website gives access to new Egyptian movies each month.  This web site also gives access to Egyptian Theatre if you have Real Audio and Real Video capabilities.

Egyptian Marriages ( http://islam.about.com/od/marriage/a/worldweddings.htm)
Explanation and pictures of weddings in Egypt, touches upon the change of customs through time and weddings in Upper Egypt

Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.

Epidemiology of Female Sexual Castration in Cairo, Egypt (http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badawi.html)
A paper presented at the First International Symposium on Circumcision, Anaheim, California, March 1-2, 1989. A group of 350 Egyptian women were selected to self report on their recall of their castration.

Fares.net English: (http://www.fares.net/en/) Arabic: (http://www.fares.net/ar/)
Directory of websites on a wide range of subjects including tourism, entertainment, culture, the media, news and business in English and Arabic. Search under the name of the country.

Gypsies and non-Gypsies in Egypt (http://www.domresearchcenter.com/journal/13/ghagar13.html)
A paper on largely ignored ethnic groups in Egypt with the intent on widening “the knowledge available about those groups of people in the world whom one could broadly identify as being members of marginal or "pariah" communities.”

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology (http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/)
Dedicated to the study of the art and cultures of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition.

Life in Ancient Egypt (http://www.carnegiemnh.org/exhibits/egypt/guide.htm)
"Teacher's Guide to The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt" at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Examination of every day life in ancient Egypt through artifacts on display at the museum.

Open Directory Portal Page on Islam (http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion%5Fand%5FSpirituality/Islam/Quran/)
The Open Directory Projects portal page on Islam offers hundreds of citations on various aspects of Islam as practiced around the globe, as well as sites which contain the complete Arabic and English texts of the Koran.

The Oriental Institute Museum (http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/ )
The Museum of the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute offers an archive of photographs of monuments in ancient Iran, Iraq, Sudan, and Egypt. Links to related sites are also provided.

RecipeSource (http://www.recipesource.com/)
A search by country in RecipeSource, the new website of SOAR: The Searchable Online Archive of Recipes, yields traditional recipes in English from countries around the world.

UCLA Library Collections & Internet Resources (http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/url/colls/mideast/)
The University of California Library Collections and Internet Resources in Middle Eastern, Arab, Islamic, Armenian and Central Asian studies.

Umm Kulthum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_Kulthum_%28singer%29)
“More than three decades after her death, she is still recognized as the Arab world's most famous and distinguished singer of the 20th Century.”

United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations, etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.

University of Texas Middle East Network Information Center: Egypt
(http://menic.utexas.edu/Countries_and_Regions/Egypt/))
Egypt-centric resources on an excellent Middle East website on mideast government, politics, news and media, education and the social sciences.

Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt from Prehistory to Late Antiquity
(http://www.umich.edu/~kelseydb/Exhibits/WomenandGender/title.html)
Online version of a Kelsey Museum exhibition mounted from March 14 through June 15, 1997, and curated by Terry G. Wilfong. which uses Egyptian artifacts to highlight roles, lives of women in ancient Egypt.

Women in the Middle East (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/mideast/cuvlm/women.html)
A page from the World Wide Web Virtual Library hosted by Columbia University Library offering articles on women in the Ancient Middle East, Afghani Women, Arab Women, Armenian Women, Assyrian Women, Iranian Women, Israeli/Jewish Women, Kurdish Women,Maltese Women, Maltese Women, and Turkish Women.

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