Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
23 - 29 July 1998
Issue No.387
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map

Plain talk
By Mursi saad El-Din

Hot and bothered? Refuge can be found in one of Cairo's many air-conditioned cinemas. Below, reviews of films horrible, historical, comical and situational
Nasser Nasser '56 -- plus
Gamal Abdel-Nasser, released this week, has already been dubbed "controversial". Nur Elmessiri begs to differ and suggests that, if anything, the film takes doctors orders to "avoid stress" very much to heart
Where gorgons breed
David Blake pities the monster

our aunt

A tart with a heart

Travel's with aunt? But whose aunt? Hani Mustafa on Sit El-Sittat


Khatwa Another goose
in the basket

Khairiya El-Beshlawi on tasteless and stale ingredients