Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
27 Aug. - 2 Sep. 1998
Issue No.392
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din


Experimental

Theatre:
Play it safe

Ten years on, the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre (CIFET) is still dogged by censorship, reports Nehad Selaiha


Ali

Books
The missing link

All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his army and the making of modern Egypt, Khaled Fahmy. Cambridge University Press: 1997.

Reviewed by Pascale Ghazaleh


A banquet; eclectic, scholarly and hybrid

Al-Qahira fi Asr Ismail (Cairo in the Age of Ismail), Arafa Abdu Ali. Cairo; Al-Dar Al-Masriya Al-Lubnaniya, 1998.

Reviewed by Mahmoud El-Wardani