A ghost sonata
At the National, Nehad Selaiha sees ghosts At High Noon

Representations of the visible
"Arab Icons: Christian Art of the Levant", an exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, presents 80 icons from Syria and Lebanon painted between the 16th and 19th centuries, together with various religious items and manuscripts from the Christian communities in the Levant...

Plain Talk
My writing for children is the least known part of my literary activities, yet it remains very important to me...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Obituary: Tahiya Halim (1919 -2003)
By Nigel Ryan

Missing enthusiasm
Amal Choucri Catta asks if this concert should really have been called gala

Watering intellects
Abdel-Moneim El-Sawy speaks to Sherif Iskander Nakhla about his cultural centre, Sakia, a new landmark of Zamalek