To wake up in the city
From 15 March, and for 10 days, Cairo is to become a veritable visual arts feast: the Ministry of Culture-sponsored Cairo Biennale at the Centre of Arts, the British Council-sponsored London Nomad exhibition at Beit Zeinab Khatoun, a seminar on Contemporary Curatorial Practice at the American University in Cairo -- and the Karim Francis-, William Wells- and Stefania Angarano organised downtown Nitaq Festival of contemporary arts which, in addition to visual arts, the focus of the festival, will feature music, theatre, film and poetry. Nur Elmessiri and Youssef Rakha met with two of the three Nitaq Festival organisers

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Butterflies and paper canoes
Nehad Selaiha rediscovers the mystery of theatre with Eugenio Barba and Julia Varley at the Wallace