The forties revived
Amal Choucri Catta detects a sudden interest in a decade long gone

In progress: Queen of the purple flowers
Siama, Queen of the Purple Flowers in her native Kakwa tongue, is a Sudanese singer based in Cairo...
By Gamal Nkrumah

Plain Talk
I find special charm in old buildings, and am deeply chagrined when I see any in a sorrowful state of dilapidation...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

In no need of protection
Nationalist militants and determined feminists: Margot Badran and Lucia Sorbera examine the grafting of agendas

Beneath the banners
Amina Elbendary examines the subtexts in local responses to the return of the Egyptian delegation from Rome