Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
17 - 23 December 1998
Issue No.408
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din


Mona Hatoum

Never too literal
Mona Hatoum, guest of honour at Cairo's International Biennale, speaks to Nigel Ryan

Saroukhan

The truth of caricature
George Bahgory remembers Saroukhan, the Armenian caricaturist whose works are currently showing in the foyer of Al-Ahram

Turandot
Caging the monster
David Blake watches as everyone jumps from the precipice

Music, mirrors and modernity
Mahmoud El-Wardani reviews some of the more interesting recent titles to have appeared in Arabic