On his return from Abu Dhabi, Hani Mustafa reconsiders the narrative-documentary division

Bilal Fadl, Alayssa assubhu bi qarib? (Is the Morning Near?), Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2011
By Soha Hesham

On 1 November, scholars and intellectuals marked the birth anniversary of Edward Said. In commemoration of the occasion, Al-Ahram Weekly publishes an abridged version of the Said Memorial Lecture given by John Carlos Rowe at the American University in Cairo

One-act operas, especially when they are by Mozart, add immeasurably to any opera company's repertoire, writes Ati Metwali