Samir Farid reports from the Venice Film Festival

Reading novelist Mustafa Zikri's new collection of essays, Youssef Rakha follows the example of several canonical works on the great 10th-century poet Abu Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi, all titled Sharh Diwan Al-Mutanabbi or The Elucidation of the Diwan of Mutanabbi

Giovanna Montalbetti meets Turkey's prima donna in the shadow of the Pyramids

By Mursi Saad El-Din