Obituary: The stateless chronicler
Abdel-Rahman Mounif (1933-2004)

Return of the potion
Three into six might be unnecessarily complicated, finds Amal Choucri Catta

Plain Talk
Music seems to be in the air, or at least in print. Seldom have I come across as many articles on music as I did last week...
By Mursi Saad El-Din

Hardly commerce
Mohamed Madbouli tells Youssef Rakha about Cairo's most successful bookshop at the Cairo International Book Fair

In search of the carnivalesque
Sonali Pahwa takes a random seminar sample