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The Circus at Luxor
In 1971 V S Naipaul, the Trinidad-born author whose winning of the 2001 Nobel prize for literature unleashed a storm of controversy, not least because of his apparent antagonism to Islam, received the Booker prize for his "novel" In a Free State. A sequence of five works -- two short stories (the prologue and the epilogue), two 40-page novellas and a 140-page short novel, In a Free State focuses on individuals stranded in foreign countries and confronted by alien cultures.
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The 25th Cairo International Film Festival awarded the Golden Pyramid to the Belgium film Paulin et Paulette by Lieven Debrauwer.
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Shubra, the Greek
Last week Mohamed El-Assyouti set out to see an Algerian film. And then he went to Greece

Salah Mar'i The only way is up
The return of the Ismailia Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Features (opening on 27 October) has come as a surprise, not least to Salah Mar'i, its new director, as Youssef Rakha finds out

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Culture Briefs

Seaside biennale
Digitalising hadith
Booker goes to Carey
Sharon in cartoon
Developing Bab Al-Azab
Egypt in Paris

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 25 - 31 October 2001 Issue No.557
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