Nehad Selaiha records some of the highlights of this year's CIFET

At the third round of MEIFF, in Abu Dhabi, Peter Scarlet, the festival's new director, spoke to Hani Mustafa

A new book on the Al-Tahra Palace gives a fascinating insight into the domestic lives of Egypt's former royal family and is a lively trip into Egypt's recent past, writes Giovanna Montalbetti