Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
13 - 19 August 1998
Issue No.390
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din


Fayoum

Whispers in the dark

For the first time, Egypt's holdings of Fayoum portraits have been assembled in the same exhibition. Nigel Ryan is shocked into recognition


Liberté

Music:
Summertime

David Blake listens to the golden thread of Gershwin as a guide through the maze of American music


Sa'idi

Cinema:
An amiable bubble unburst

Khairiya El-Beshlawi discovers a world in which almost everyone is really, really nice


Books
From Al-Jahiz to Bourdieu

Mahmoud El-Wardani reviews some of the more interesting titles to have appeared this month