Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
8 - 14 March 2001
Issue No.524
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Films
No business like show business
Partnership or takeover? As the corporate sector steps tentatively into the cultural sphere, Youssef Rakha chronicles an ongoing controversy
Films
Private owners, public rights
Beleaguered, much reduced, and confronted by the powerful challenge of giant private sector conglomerates, the public sector in cinema is trying to redefine its niche in the market. Hanan Sabra talks to the man fending off the blows
Market
Into exile
Efforts to clean up the overcrowded district of Al-Khalifa are pushing one of Cairo's oldest street markets into oblivion. Dena Rashed tackles the jumble of Sayeda Aisha market

For shame or glory
It is to the death for these carefully bred birds, but for the men behind the match, the tradition of cock-fighting has a life of its own. Sahar El-Bahr investigates the world of rooster breeders

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