Home again
Amal Choucri Catta revels in Aida's return to her original home

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Amal Donqol, author of some of the most appreciated modern poems of the insurgent 1960s, is at the centre of a four-day Supreme Council of Culture conference beginning next Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of his death...

Plain Talk
This month Britain celebrates the 100th birth anniversary of George Orwell, regarded as one of the most influential political writers of his time. Many see his books as prophetic. And to commemorate his contribution Penguin is re-jacketing his books...

In progress: A theatrical bent
Alan Wright began working in the theatre in Glasgow and on the London fringe, where he stage managed many productions...

Like to a bubbling fountain
Nehad Selaiha encounters a blood bath at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

A representational dilemma
"And then," wrote John Berger after visiting the Venice Biennale in 1958, "there was the pavilion of the United Arab Republic...