An art exhibition entitled “Meeting Here” is being shown at the German House here in Addis starting from October 29, 2009.Over 70 works of two Ethiopian and two German artists are on view at the show organized by GTZ. Intended to be as a synthesis of cooperation and linkages between... [view entry]

The 17th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (ICES) will be held at the Addis Ababa University from November 2 to 6, 2009.Shiferaw Bekele, a teacher at Department of History and Heritage Management of Addis Ababa University, has written a long article about the event and its background in October 25th... [view entry]

On Sunday October 11, 2009, Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC), a newly finished house designed and built by artist Elias Sime in around Old Airport area, screened video of an episode from the American Public Broadcasting Service series Art:21-Art in the Twenty–First Century. Though not familiar with Ethiopian audiences, the... [view entry]

The business weekly, Fortune has carried front page news about record art sale at the recent Sheraton Addis’s Art of Ethiopia exhibition. The paper in today’s issue disclosed the record sale of the exhibition was the work by Mezgebu Tessema, pctured on the top, earned the highest price of 110,000... [view entry]

For Mesfin Gebreyes Oda, art has always been an object of interest, starting from his early school days at Lycée Guebre Mariam in the mid fifties and sixties. But it was a chance encounter with the works of Ethiopian modernist artist Gebre Kirstos Desta that made him take the business... [view entry]

By Prof. Donald N. Levine A half century ago, the ill-fated coup attempt against Emperor Haile Sellassie I in December 1960 marked the moment when Ethiopia entered the era of modernizing revolutions. The event, I have argued (www.eineps.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=746), became the first of several missed opportunities that Ethiopia suffered while trying... [view entry]

Actresss, commercial producer and film director, Mulualem Tadesse is being sued by owner of Edna Mall Cinema, Tekle-Berhan Ambaye over cost of production and share of profit from the Amharic film “Abugida”. According the entertainment radio-show, Tadias Addis, Takle-Berhan claims he has not received any money from Mulualem, even though... [view entry]

The noted Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany says the Western political and media bias against Islam is clear. But Arabs and Muslims must combat false, retrograde ideas around “our” religion. Here are the first two paragraphs of the article that appeared on the Guardian.co.uk. Denny Pattyn is an American priest of... [view entry]

Many people who find $ 500 lying on the floor might be tempted to keep it in their pockets. But an Ethiopian airport worker decided to “do the right thing” instead. A young woman named Selome Getachew who works for the Ethiopian Revenues and Custom Authority Bole Airport Branch honestly... [view entry]

The late Poet Laureate Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin’s memorial celebration held at the National Theatre on September 7 was hailed as a tour de force initiative intended to honor a prominent literary figure of the country. Regrettably, it has turned out to be a cause for disappointment for another living prominent stage... [view entry]