Amal Choucri Catta on the problems of playing a geisha

Mohamed El-Assyouti watches Mohamed Khan reclaim overlooked lives in Banat Wist Al-Balad

Homage unadulterated by critique would have been the easy choice for the Edward W Said Memorial Lecture sponsored by the American University in Cairo (AUC). Thankfully this was not the case, writes Hala Halim, who interviewed the lecturer David Damrosch

The murder of filmmaker Moustapha Al-Akkad silences one of the Arab world's most eloquent defenders, writes Sami Moubayed

by Mursi Saad El-Din