Quality, not quantity, says Amal Choucri Catta

Back from France, filmmaker Saad Hendawy, a member of the 27th Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival jury, reviews the event's award winners

Arab Novel Conference I, II and, suddenly, III: Mona Anis searches for clues to the event's belated honouring of Sudanese novelist Tayyeb Salih

Speaking to Egyptian novelists, Rania Khallaf gauges out the impression left behind by the Culture Council's Novel Conference last week

Christian Bode, secretary-general of the German Academic Exchange Service, tells Rania Gaafar about the virtues of Humboldtian education, university reforms and the German University in Cairo

This year the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium provides exclusively for its own veterans, reports Reham El- Adawi

by Mursi Saad El-Din