Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
3 - 9 September 1998
Issue No.393
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Theatre:
Play it again, Sam
CIFETThe Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre (CIFET) opened on Tuesday. For almost two weeks every serviceable theatrical venue in Cairo, and some not so serviceable, will be occupied by festival productions. Nehad Selaiha provides highlights and, below, we publish the schedule for the festival, together with estimated performance times, in an attempt to guide readers through a thicket of experimentation

CIFET Programme
 

Gender

Books
Nurturing difference
Islam, Gender and Social Change, edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxviii + 259
Reviewed by David Blanks

From the evil eye to Imam Al-Shafe'i
Mahmoud El-Wardani reviews some of the more significant titles to have been published in the past month