At the 16th annual Theatre Clubs' Festival, the first after the Beni Sweif holocaust on 5 September last year, Nehad Selaiha senses a fierce determination to carry on despite the tragedy

Amal Choucri Catta extols the virtues of the viola d'amore

In the first Naguib Mahfouz Memorial Lecture, delivered on 3 December at the American University in Cairo, Nadine Gordimer pays tribute to Egypt's Nobel laureate in literature who died last August

At the 30th Cairo International Film Festival, Mohamed El-Assyouti watches two films exploring the complexity of North Africa's relationship with Europe

Hani Mustafa wonders at the inclusion of a section in the CIFF entitled "Controversial Films"

By Mursi Saad El-Din