6 - 12 August 1998
Issue No.389
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 6 - 12 August 1998 Issue No.389 |
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| Plain talk By Mursi Saad El-Din
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An intellectual catastrophe
Edward Said argues that V S Naipaul's Beyond Belief is based on an "idiotic and insulting theory" which sells well |
Out of the tent and into the harem quarters The Tent, Miral Al-Tahawy, tr Anthony Calderbank. Cairo: AUC Press, 1998. Reviewed by Nur Elmessiri |
Beauty without purpose
David Blake sees ice blue is true blue |
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Cinema: A different age with different people? 
Khairiya El-Beshlawi finds much that is praiseworthy in Harmonica, but wonders whether the film's attempt at something new has succeeded
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