Nehad Selaiha discovers the poetry of footwear at the opening of the 6th Festival for Dance Theatre

Amal Choucri Catta hails two friends of old

The latest in a string of reactions to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, paintings of muscle-bound men by Latin America's best known living artist, Fernando Botero, will this week be on show as part of a retrospective in Rome. Rania Gaafar reflects on representations in the Middle East as a means to the formation and maintenance of memory

Marie-Thérèse Abdel-Messih explores the concept of place