Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
15 - 21 April 1999
Issue No. 425
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

 
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Basma Hotel in Aswan
photo: Randa Shaath

TALKING WITH STONES

At the Basma Hotel in Aswan, 15 granite pieces boarded side by side with their sculptors, enjoying all the benefits of a four-star hotel for two months. And well they might, for this year the International Sculpture Symposium, headed by the mercurial Adam Henein, was even more successful than in previous years, and came to a beautiful close when Salah Mar'i decided to hold the closing ceremony in the magical village of Baharif, eight kilometres away from the city. Full coverage next week on the Culture pages.