by Nehad Selaiha

As the first death anniversary of Edward Said dawns, Hamid Dabashi , a fellow professor at Columbia, recounts his last visit to Palestine, where he collected a fistful of Jerusalemite dust, reclaiming his late friend's birthplace

At the first of three conferences held in Alexandria and Cairo last week, the reminiscences and reflections of novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet captivated the audience

A programme of uncensored European cinema has taken Cairo by storm

Before reviewing the new Swiss conductor's second concert in Cairo, Amal Choucri Catta outlines the history of opera in this part of the world

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina came into its own this week with the second Beacon for Freedom of Expression conference bringing together sundry Arab viewpoints

In a briefing about his plans for the Arab world guest-of-honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Ahmed Kamal Abul-Magd lent credence to the view that the event is as much about "rectifying Western misconceptions of Arabs" as anything else

by Rania Khallaf

by Mursi Saad El-Din