Nehad Selaiha faces despair and rebellion at the CFCC's 3ème Festival des Jeunes Créateurs

Amal Choucri Catta is captivated by a free spirit's death dance

Of the Eid releases, Hani Mustafa explores one of the the more serious, while Mohamed El-Assyouti revels in the social contradictions generated by one of the more popular

One of the most distinguished guests of honour to have attended the Cairo Book Fair, Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer was at the centre of a surprisingly uneventful seminar last week: Lina Mahmoud reports

One of the Book Fair's guests of honour this year, French orientalist Henry Laurens enlightens Injy El-Kashef about the "Franco-Arab thing"

A respected short story writer, translator and novelist, Jordanian author Elias Farkouh is also a publisher. Rania Khallaf seizes the opportunity of his presence at the Cairo Book Fair to find out about his multifaceted presence on the Arab literary scene

By Mursi Saad El-Din