Thespian fever
Nehad Selaiha samples the Egyptian contribution to CIFET 2003

In progress: Legends of the oud
Naseer Shamma, one of the world's most celebrated oud players, was born in Al-Kut, southern Iraq, in 1963 and earned a diploma from the Baghdad Institute for Music in 1987...
By Sherif Iskander Nakhla

Plain Talk
The Egyptian Association of Comparative Studies, headed by Dr Ahmed Etman, Professor of Classics at Cairo University, convenes international conferences and seminars at which scores of research papers from different countries are submitted and discussed and then eventually published...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

No more aluminium
As a new round of the Alexandria Film Festival opens Youssef Rakha listens to its reluctant new president

Exclusive prayers
Amal Choucri Catta revels in uniqueness

Photo Caption
Windows, "on video, performance, music" celebrates, so the sparse pre-publicity has it, "the rehabilitation of the new space at Townhouse"...