Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
24 - 30 September 1998
Issue No.396
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Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din


Youth

Youth at the end of

Installed, in vogue: Nigel Ryan on the joys of spring




Silent

The Egyptian-European Festival of Silent Movies with Live Music is the first of its kind in Egypt.

Figaro
Sweet pontifical
Fig's back and David Blake enjoys a revamping

Books:

Aziza Broken dreams
Hayati fi Misr: Mudhakirat Fatah Siwissriyah 'Ashat fi'l-Iskandariya (Mein Leben in Ägypten), Esther Zimmerly-Hartmann, trans. Mohamed Abu Rahma, Cairo: Greenleaf, 1998. Reviewed by Mahmoud El-Wardani