Nehad Selaiha enjoys an Egyptian take on the Greek Antigone myth set in Upper Egypt

An eye-witness account of the agony of war in Iraq, Aida Schlaepfer's film Gangs of Baghdad focuses on the ordeals of ordinary Iraqis, writes Nesmahar Sayed

Films, biographies, souvenir scarves and even umbrellas: what is the secret of Marie-Antoinette's continuing appeal, more than two hundred years after her death in the French Revolution, asks David Tresilian

By Mursi Saad El-Din