Nehad Selaiha is introduced to a new bunch of playwrights at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Amal Choucri Catta celebrates the career of pan-piper Gheorghe Zamfir at the Cairo Opera House

Samir Farid is impressed by Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood at this year's Berlin International Film Festival and by the only Arab film on show, Yousri Nasrallah's Aquarium

Margot Badran laments the recent closing down of Zanan, the Iranian Journal for Women

By Mursi Saad El-Din