Little man, big man
Nehad Selaiha finds watching Max Frisch's Count Oderland immediately after Georg Buchner's Woyzeck positively cathartic

In progress: Busy idlers
Khaled Hafez, born in Cairo in 1963, followed evening classes at the Fine Arts College for six years while studying medicine, graduating in 1990...

Plain Talk
In an earlier column I pondered the future of South African literature following the end of apartheid...

Czech mate
Amal Choucri Catta finds herself among the few

A briefer magic
The Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival is widely regarded as the Cannes of short film. Saad Hendawy attended this year's round

Briefs
The Supreme Council for Culture held a seminar on Tuesday on actress Sanaa Gamil, who died last year...