Nehad Selaiha takes a break from the third National theatre festival to report on the fourth pantomime festival at Al-Saqia

Dutch politician Geert Wilders's film Fitna is an alarming new episode in the 'clash of civilisations,' this time fomented in cyberspace, writes Amira Nowaira

Islam: Art and Architecture, Edited by Markus Hattstein and Peter Delius, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007. pp623, fully illustrated with colour photographs, plans, line drawings and maps Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture, Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007. pp400, 270 Illus. incl. 200 in colour

By Mursi Saad El-Din