Al-Ahram Weekly Online   27 May - 2 June 2004
Issue No. 692
Culture
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Dancing through Shakespeare
Nehad Selaiha encounters a lovely Shakespearean collage in body language at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Rooted and enjoying it
Through Qithara, Pierre Loza discovers how classical Arabic music can be fun
Fantastical fauna
A guileless fabricator of the 1990s tells Youssef Rakha about Cairo, Naga' Hamadi and the infinitesimal distance separating one from the other
Sublimely solo
Amal Choucri Catta is dazzled by singing fingers
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ISSUES relating to migration and exile were at the core of the theme tackled by Arab directors in several films screened at the 57th Cannes Film Festival. Algerian-French director Tony Gitlif's Exils -- which won the Cannes Best Director Award -- is about two young men's journey from France to Spain, and then to their motherland Algeria. It deals with the connection immigrants have with their motherlands, as well as with the countries to which they have migrated... --caption--

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