Demanding yet more lawsuits
The Egyptian entry in the Cairo Film Festival's official competition has been the subject of increasing controversy, writes Hani Mustafa

A family business
Italian film producer Renzo Rossellini, Cairo Film Festival jury member, tells Mohamed El-Assyouti about art and politics

Plain Talk
The recent publication by the Egyptian Book Organisation of eight volumes of Al-Kateb Al-Massry (The Egyptian Writer), a literary magazine published between 1945 to 1947, has brought back some pleasant memories...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

An African context
A group of Egyptian photographers are represented for the first time at the Fifth Festival of African Photography, reports Teri Wang

More feathered migrants
Those big white birds, and a few blacks ones, are back. Amal Choucri Catta turns ornithologist

An image from the show
Street noise, the silence of the desert, and a pick-up truck as confessional: Colette Kinsella wanders through installations at the Goethe Institut