Dreams of escape
Hani Mustafa watches the winner of this year's Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival

In progress: A change of plan
Based on an interview by Youssef Rakha

Films and Passion
Marianne Khoury speaks to Mohamed El-Assyouti about the making of 'Ashiqaat Al-Cinema; Amina Elbendary reviews this documentary study of six pioneering women

Plain Talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Imagining the book:
Artists from Egypt and abroad are hosted by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in a group exhibition that not only explores the convention of the artists' book but, under the rubric above, deconstructs the objects in question. --see caption--

Briefs
Compiled by Youssef Rakha