Al-Ahram Weekly

21 -27 February 2008
Issue No. 885
Culture

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Ending on eccentric note

This year's awards at the Berlin International Film Festival were marked by eccentricity and justice in more or less equal measure, writes Samir Farid

A French recommendation for Arab film

Egyptian filmmaker Saad Hendawy is heartened by the Arab entries in this month's Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival

Filled with the sound of a cello's strings

Amal Choucri Catta enjoys Winds in the Void, presented at the Cairo Opera House by the Zèrcher Ballet

Alexandria once more

Nehad Selaiha has more to say about the 5th Creative Forum of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Translational stakes

Karim Nagi, the executive director of a new translation project, Kalima, speaks with Rania Khallaf

Plain Talk

By Mursi Saad El-Din