Obituary:
Homegrown Hitchcock
Kamal El-Sheikh (1919-2004)

Beyond the Danube
Amal Choucri Catta finds a slightly different new year

Plain Talk
Digging through my press cuttings I try to come up with something interesting to say -- hardly an easy task with such a heap of material before me...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Toasting independence
Nehad Selaiha celebrates the first Euro-Mediterran ean Creative Forum for Independent Theatre Groups at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Room for optimism
Sonali Pahwa speaks with Geo Britto about the work of the Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed