Beneath velvet skies
Amal Choucri Catta speaks to Hassan Kami, director of this year's Citadel Summer Festival of Music and Song

In progress: Globalism and film
Klaus Maria Brandauer was born in 1943 in Altaussee, Upper Austria...
By Mustafa El-Menshawy

Plain Talk
This is not an obituary of Hosny Guindy; it is an appraisal of his life and work, both of which I claim to have observed and participated in...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Creative activism
The Third International Black Panther Film Festival provided a rare opportunity for politics and imagination to intermingle, writes Ammiel Alcalay

A matter of placement
An octogenarian Australian sits besides the wife of an Indian diplomat, dictating. She types his words into the computer...
By Nigel Ryan