Ibn Khaldun resurrected
Amina Elbendary attends the Mahfouz Award Ceremony at AUC

Canals and rivers
Amal Choucri Catta is waterborne

Plain Talk
From the start of Ramadan through to the end of the feast no one was spared the presence of the all-powerful soap opera; musalsalat, as these popular serial dramas are called, became an unequivocal part of our lives
By Mursi Saad El-Din

The art of dodging
Nehad Selaiha joins the khalabees at the gallery of Al-Hanager

Hassan Fathy: innovation and tradition
Drawing on the American University in Cairo's collection of architectural drawings and memorabilia of Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy, as well as on similar material held by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Hassan Fathy, un architecte égyptien is a free exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe that traces the development of Fathy's work from the earliest experiments to the architect's late commissions in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Briefs
Novelist Alaa El-Deeb submitted his resignation as secretary of the Fiction Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture.

Siesta in the midst of siege
Mahmoud Darwish is in Cairo for the first time in two years. He spoke to Amina Elbendary