Amal Choucri Catta does the housework

Hani Mustafa registers the difference between artistry and artifice

Marking the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded this month to British novelist Doris Lessing -- the oldest ever to receive it to date -- Nahed Nassr quizzes out the local literati about the position of Arabic literature in the world today

Reading Radwa Farghali's Baghaa Al-Qasiraat (The Prostitution of Minors), published this month by Dar Al-Mahrousa, Mohamed Baraka bemoans the dearth of literature on sex

By Mursi Saad El-Din