Light, more light
Mohamed Khan's Ayyam El-Sadat grants Nur Elmessiri a glimpse of the terrifying power and glory

Lovely Verdi gets it right
David Blake wonders how this concert came about at all. It was very wonderful

The guy next door
Last Wednesday the death of Hollywood's most famous Everyman, Jack Lemmon, marked the end of a cinematic marathon..--read on--

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

From page to stage
Nehad Selaiha is bewitched and repelled by a stage version of a popular satirical novel

The Mediterranean Maghreb
Though the bulk of its activities are to take place this month, the seventh round of the Rabat Festival -- till 30 July -- has kept the Moroccan capital buzzing with literature and art for two weeks since it opened to coincide with the World Music Day --read on--