Pulling the carpet
Hani Mustafa speaks to Atom Egoyan, the director celebrated in Cairo's first Canadian Cinema Festival

Preludes and poems
Amal Choucri Catta strolls between executions and exhibitions

Plain Talk
Adapting literary works for the screen gives rise to a perennial controversy...

Crying in the wilderness
Nehad Selaiha watches as Nora Amin continues to explore the world of Marguerite Duras

'Being among difference'
Empire old, empire new: Hala Halim reports from Los Angeles on two lectures delivered by Edward Said

Briefs
Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz was this week elected to the position of Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...