Singing with their bodies
International Women's Day is marked by body language at the British Council. Nehad Selaiha joins the celebration

In progress: Handling irony
Mahmoud El-Lozy, professor of theatre at AUC, has just finished rehearsing a production of Ibsen's Ghosts. Lozy has directed some 20 theatre productions in English, French and Arabic.

Plain Talk
If Alexandria is known as the bride of the Mediterranean, Aswan can claim to be the bride of Upper Egypt...

Whizzing through a century
Cairo Opera House's first festival of twentieth century music opened with a bang, writes Amal Choucri Catta

Bourdieu and Algeria: an elective affinity
A year after the death of Pierre Bourdieu, a Paris exhibition has put the French sociologist's photographic work in Algeria on show for the first time, writes David Tresilian

Briefs
Edward Said, American University in Cairo (AUC) officials announced, is to give two lectures at the AUC on 16 and 19 March...