A homage to Mokhtar
Nehad Selaiha watches as statues briefly come to life in Walid Aouni's Mahmoud Mokhtar and the Khamaseen Winds

In progress: Vocational chores
Karima Mansour graduated from the Cinema Institute in 1991. In the same year she started a professional formation dance course in Italy, and from 1993 to 1997 attended the London School of Contemporary Dance, earning both a BA and an MA...

Plain Talk
The war on Iraq has brought back memories of an earlier invasion of the same country. In 1917 the British invaded Iraq, which was then under Ottoman control...

Of musical subtleties
Amal Choucri Catta splashes in the fountains

Cosmopolitan grass roots
Speaking to filmmaker Sandra Nashaat, Sherif Iskander Nakhla takes stock of the second in a series of hip comic hits

Photo Caption
Baghdad: before the bombs begin to fall..