Put out the light
The sooner the new Othello at Hanager is extinguished the better, writes Nehad Selaiha

The coats are coming
Based on an interview by Nigel Ryan

Plain Talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Ghassan Knafani
This week the memory of Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani (9 April 1936-8 July 1972) -- an icon of the convergence of literature and politics -- lent current affairs in the occupied territories a mournful edge. --read on--

Resisting in Europe
Novelist Sonallah Ibrahim has moved the Arab boycott of all things Israeli across the Mediterranean to Europe, reports Amina Elbendary

Love in different places
A few reservations washed away by the flood. What else could it be, writes Nabila Erian, but Carmina Burana

Briefs
Compiled by Youssef Rakha