Clandestine initiations
The premiere of Miguel Littin's A Palestinian Chronicle was one of the highlights of the Fifth Ismailia Festival for Documentaries and Short Films. The celebrated Chilean filmmaker spoke to Mohamed El-Assyouti

Plain talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Barking across the great steppe
David Blake finds a prickly piano in hot pursuit

'What you have to do'
Amina Elbendary hears the angels singing

Briefs

Books books books... and films... and more film Honouring Dayf... and Abdel-Sabour Arab libraries analysed Playing in Ramadan Post-war art Mahfouz in Amsterdam