HUMAN BORDERS: Currently ongoing in Biel, Switzerland, a collective exhibition of photographs by 10 photographers from different parts of the world probes the question of troubled borders. --read on--

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

All the world a movie
Nehad Selaiha tries to unravel a skein of ambiguities in Al-Hanager's The Days of Lulu and Shushu

Heat Waves
The terms of cultural debate are changing, writes Amina Elbendary

The natural philosophers
In the footsteps of Bahaa
Saddam's literature