The Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar was elected to the Académie française in June, the first woman from the Maghreb to be elected to this prestigious French conclave, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Rania Khallaf follows up on the e-publishing phenomenon

Recently in Beirut, Youssef Rakha witnesses two sides of post-war night life

Amal Choucri Catta enjoys a Sicilian tale set in Upper Egypt

Last week, in Paris, Geneviève Laporte, secret mistress of Pablo Picasso auctioned off 20 of his drawings...

By Mursi Saad El-Din