Catalan meditations Nehad Selaiha ponders the challenges facing women and the theatre at a feminist meeting in Barcelona
Anyone for tennis? David Blake watches but stays aloof from the play	Farewell to arms Who would have thought that Ahmed Fouad Negm, the "poet of the people" -- whose playful, sarcastic and openly oppositional Colloquial Arabic poems and song lyrics --read on--
Patterns of conviction Anna Boghiguian examines the life and enduring achievement of Ingy Aflatoun ten years after the artist's death
Around the galleries The rowdy summer stage I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Danny Cannon, 1998) Apology