A year or more in Cairo: Giuseppe Acconcia remembers first finding a place to live

Notwithstanding faulty sound engineering, Ati Metwaly discovers how summer can be a many-spleandoured thing

A new interpretation of the 1882 Orabi revolt, writes Marco Pinfari, shows that the old fallacies and prejudices of the colonial era tend to resurface in contemporary historiography, just in a different form

Eugene Rogan, The Arabs: A History, London: Allen Lane, 2009. Reviewed by David Tresilian