Living on the edge
THE DEATH of literary critic, writer and university professor Shukri Ayyad in the small hours of Saturday morning marks the end not only of an extraordinary life devoted to literature and learning, but also of a whole cultural era -- that of the second-generation pioneers of the modern literary renaissance -- and of a unique and admirable sensibility.
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Phantom of an opera
Nehad Selaiha encounters a curious festival and an odd musical patchwork in a new Egyptian version of Bizet's Carmen at Cinema Radio Theatre
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