Levantine tunes SATURDAY marked the 50th anniversary of the death of George Abyad (1880-1950), actor, director, pioneer and legend of the Arab stage. --read on--	Mummy's the word It was hocus-pocus time in tiny Bawiti on Tuesday night, as a major American TV network purported to discover a golden mummy, live! Tarek Atia was there
	Big and beautiful David Blake meets the last of the dinosaurs
	New projects, same faces Sunday saw the annual meeting of the Society of the Friends of Ahmed Bahaaeddin, a grant-making institution founded two years ago with the aim of encouraging young researchers in various fields of academic endeavour, --read on--

Plain talk By Mursi Saad El-Din