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14 - 20 May 1998
Issue No.377
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din
I have just received a wonderful package of publications from the British Council. It contains, among other things, a comprehensive list of recent researches on English literature which goes to show that the interest in literature never lags and that in spite of the supremacy of science, this old established form is still popular.--read on--  

Something's got to give  

Ramzi Yassa David Blake ponders, without solving, the mystery of yet another director at the Cairo Opera House

Cavafy As much as you can
The 7th Cavafy International Symposium closed last week. Hala Halim reports on the annual Cavafy binge
NO A light shines over the Gulf
Nehad Selaiha reports on the 8th Sharjah Theatre Festival and the choice of the city as cultural capital of the Arab world for 1998

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