Al-Ahram Weekly
28 Jan. - 3 Feb. 1999
Issue No. 414
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875
Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din
Literature and literalism
There can be no civilized society in which the life of the mind is ruled dogmatically by laws of what is forbidden and what cannot be read, writes
Edward Said
Way beyond hysterics
Old for new, calls
David Blake
Book Fair Seminar and Poetry Reading Programme
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