Nehad Selaiha is deeply moved by an Egyptian adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening

Cleopatra's curse hung over the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, 50km west of Alexandria, where excavators combed the sand last Saturday looking for her resting place with her beloved Mark Anthony. Nevine El-Aref witnessed the search

Ati Metwaly suffuses the royal atmosphere

In March Bachir El-Sebaie received the annual Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi Award for best translation published by the National Centre of Translation, for his translation of the French historian Henri Laurens's six-volume La Question de Palestine. He spoke to Sayed Mahmoud on the occasion

At the Cannes Festival, Samir Farid samples the year's crop

Costa Gavras agrees with Injy El-Kashef that the world will always need heroes