Arlecchino in Cairo
Giorgio Strehler's vintage production of Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters strikes Nehad Selaiha as a nostalgic fairy tale

In progress: Mafia Inc.
Sari El-Naggar, 31, is one of Egyptian cinema's rising stars...
By Sherif Nakhla

Plain Talk
The recent Sony Gallery exhibition Creswell's Cairo: Then and Now, brought back memories of the last meeting I had with that great connoiseur of Islamic monuments...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

A sentimental journey
Sonali Pahwa speaks with filmmaker Samir Abdallah about activism, internationalism and the possibilities of solidarity

Last but not least
The wrong Strauss hardly tarnished the music, writes Amal Choucri Catta