Rumours and death
Amal Choucri Catta attends a variable Tosca

Plain Talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Gathering one more time
The Supreme Council for Culture held its second women's conference last week. Amina Elbendary couldn't quite keep up

Critical mass
Marilyn Booth, participating in the Supreme Council for Culture Conference of Women's Writing last week, speaks to Youssef Rakha about literature in an unsympathetic world

American spell
Nehad Selaiha compares two American productions seen in Cairo last week

Food for thought
For some Ramadan means daytime ordeals, rushing through traffic jams from one place to another to make it home by iftar --read on--