Al-Ahram Weekly Online   1 - 7 July 2010
Issue No. 1005
Culture
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Legends of the crowing rooster
Mustafa Hussein Kamal takes us into a special world of visual creativity, in which old and new interact through legends and folk heritage, writes Nagwa El-Ashri
DEATH OF AN ERA
Dying within a week of each other, on 21 and 28 June respectively, the critic Farouk Abdel-Qader (b. 1938) and the poet Mohammad Afifi Matar (b. 1935) -- both left-wing dissidents...
Hamlet, again and again
Nehad Selaiha finds Hamlet popping up twice at the 1st Youth Theatre Encounter
Grand finale
Ati Metwaly revels in a miscellany of sound
The importance of being Egyptian
Ahmad Helmi's latest vehicle is supposed to expose the problems of Egyptian society, writes Hani Mustafa, but it exposes the problems of Egyptian cinema as well

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