Kalevala's gentle giants
Amal Choucri Catta samples the delights of the North

In progress:
Midsummer mania
Ahmed El-Attar, now 33, earned a BA in theatre at the American University in Cairo...

Plain Talk
Often important events are consciously or unconsciously overlooked by the media...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

World conquests
As the war on Iraq enters its third week, and the scuds continue to terrorise a crumbling city, there is one conspicuous winner in the battle for fame and power. The image...

Urban poetics
Sherif Iskander Nakhla journeys with the dispossessed