Al-Ahram Weekly Online   13 - 19 September 2007
Issue No. 862
Culture
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Notes on a festival
Nehad Selaiha detects recurrent motifs in this year's CIFET
The magic castanet
Flamenco, the Opera and the return of Amal Choucri Catta
Welcome back
The name of the dance troupe Itanina - Rotana for "welcome back" - seemed peculiarly apt to their return to the Cairo last week, writes Nesmahar Sayed
Third world first
After his voyage to Marco Polo's hometown, Mohamed El-Assyouti takes stock of some of the highlights of the 64th Venice Film Festival
Ever the twain shall meet
In the first of a series of articles on the occasion of Ramadan, Eric Walberg traces the historical roots of Western-Islamic misunderstanding since Christianity's great rival swept across the Middle East and beyond in the 7-8th cc, culminating in continued attempts to conquer the Muslim world, both physically and spiritually
Plain Talk
By Mursi Saad El-Din

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