Al-Ahram Weekly 13 - 19 January 2000 Issue No. 464
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

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Monthly supplement The barber of Baghdad Ard Al-Sawad (Land of Darkness), a novel in three volumes, Abdel-Rahman Mounif, Beirut and Casablanca: Al-Mou'assassa Al-Arabiya Lildirasta wal-Nashr (Beirut), Al-Markaz Al-Thaqafi Al-Arabi Lil-Nashr wal-Tawzi (Casablanca) 1999. Fiction and reality Abdel-Rahman Mounif Chinese monuments and miracles Al-Seen: Mo'jizat Nihayat Al-Qarn Al-Ishreen (China: Miracle of the End of the 20th Century ), Ibrahim Nafie, Cairo: Al-Ahram Centre for Translation and Publishing 1999. pp200 Deep roots, shallow soil Landmarks in the History of the Communist Party of the Sudan in the half century 1946 - 1996, Mohamed Said al-Qaddal, Beirut: Dar Al-Farabi, 1999. pp310 Cinematic maladies Al-Cinema Al-Arabiya Al-Mo'assira (Contemporary Arab Cinema),Samir Farid, Cairo: The Supreme Council for Culture publications,1998. pp260 Horses in the desert night Night & Horses & the Desert, An Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature, Robert Irwin, London: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press. pp462 Heritage in the balance The Arabic Literary Heritage: the Development of its Genres and Criticism, Roger Allen, Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp437 Summer torments Azhar al-Shams (Flowers of the Sun),Youssef Rakha, Cairo: Sharqiat Publishing House, 1999. pp143 Hill of evil counsel Tal Al-Hawa ,Youssef Abu Raya, Cairo: Al-Hilal Novels, 1999. pp146 Century, conceived and edited by Bruce Bernard, London: Phaidon Press, 1999. pp1120 --see caption-- To the editor At a glance A shorthand guide to the month compiled by Mahmoud El-Wardani * Al-Faylaq (The Corps), Amin Ezzeddin, Cairo: Fustat Publishing House, 1999. pp174 * Ana Baqqa wa Adel Hammouda (Adel Hammouda and Me), Ahmed Fouad Negm, Cairo: Zeinab Publishing House, 2000. pp108 * Jamal Eddin Al-Afghani, El-Sayed Youssef,Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1999. pp255 * Masirat Hayati Hatta 1964 (The Course of My Life to 1964), Mohamed Youssef El-Guindi, Cairo: Organisation for Cultural Palaces, 1999. pp208 * Al-Mohammashoun wa Al-Siyasa fi Misr (The Marginalised and Politics in Egypt), Amani Massoud El-Heddini, Cairo: Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, 1999. pp302 * Al-Kotob: Wughat Nazar (Books: Viewpoints), monthly magazine, issue no. 12, January 2000, Cairo: The Egyptian Company for Arab and International Publication * Al-Hilal, monthly magazine, January 1999, Cairo: Al-Hilal Publishing House * Al-Arabi, monthly magazine, issue no. 494, January 2000, Kuwait: Ministry of Information * Sotour (Lines), monthly magazine, issue no. 39, December 1999, Cairo: Sotour Publications * Al-Osour Al-Jadida (New Eras), monthly magazine, issue no. 3, 2000, Cairo: Sinai Publishing House * Adab wa Naqd (Literature and Criticism), monthly literary magazine, issue no. 172, December 1999, Cairo: Progressive Nationalist Unionist Party publications To see other book supplements go to the ARCHIVES index.    Illustrations courtesy of International Commitee of the Red Cross "Folk drawings and tales", Cairo, 1996

Century, conceived and edited by Bruce Bernard, London: Phaidon Press, 1999. pp1120

In this momentous photographic compilation -- an encyclopedic and stylish overview of the just-bygone century, offering some 3000 pictures that record, comment and illuminate -- it is possible to percieve humanity, at least the humanity of the 20th century, in unpredictable and fascinating time frames, as if frozen on the page. Yet the book offers more than an exhaustive record of 20th-century political history, capturing rare moments of insight. Left: Paul Cezanne looking content with a late Grandes Baigneuses -- a rare emotion captured by friend and painter Emile Bernard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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