When the subaltern speaks Last month saw considerable controversy over a book written more than quarter of a century ago, when the appropriateness of placing Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri's Al-Khubz al-Hafi (For Bread Alone) on the university curriculum came under fire. Ferial J. Ghazoul rereads a classic of modern Arabic literature

Devouring abundance! Gazbia Sirry's show, Place and Time, at the Centre for International Cultural Cooperation, closes tonight. Anna Boghiguian wanders around
New novels, old histories Mahmoud El-Wardani reviews some of the more significant titles to have been published in the past month	About as dead as Hamlet David Blake picks his way between beds, ghosts and songbirds