Spring brought poetry from the inaugural round of the Dubai International Poetry Festival (4-10 March) to this week's issue of Cairo's most popular literary publication, Akhbar Al Adab, which dedicated its Bustan (Orchard) department to poetry criticism and poets' testimonies: Youssef Rakha considers a maligned genre

Hani Mustafa dips into the Swiss Film Festival in Cairo

Amal Fawzi tells Nesmahar Sayed about one of Egypt's most contentious social issues

By Mursi Saad El-Din