Al-Ahram Weekly

When Ibrahim Aslan and Hamdi Abu-Golail were referred to the state security prosecutor over the republication of Syrian writer Haydar Haydar's A Banquet for Seaweed, matters appeared to have reached a head. Al-Ahram Weekly speaks to the protagonists in this unfolding drama
Before the law Youssef Rakha speaks to the prime suspects in the alleged case against Islam	Yes minister, no minister While the issue of Haydar Haydar's novel continues to escalate, Sarah El-Deeb talks to writer Salah Eissa, editor of the Ministry of Culture's newly-launched newspaper Al-Qahira, and novelist Gamal El-Ghitani, editor of Cairo's most popular literary publication, Akhbar Al-Adab

How does Al-Azhar view the current debate on Haydar's novel? Omayma Abdel-Latif spoke to two senior officials in Sunni Islam's oldest establishment

The smell of smoke

A crusade of the mind

In defence of multiplicity
The fall-out from the argument over Haydar Haydar's novel highlights the hi-jacking of religious discourse to serve political ends, suggests Nesmahar Sayed