Gilles Kepel, Quatre-vingt-treize, Paris: Gallimard, 2011. Pp. 322

AT THE 17TH-CENTURY Beit El-Set Wasila in Al-Azhar, writes Nevine El-Aref, poets, scholars and intellectuals gathered on Saturday night to celebrate the Rabindranath Tagore's 150th anniversary, honouring India's best-known poet, philosopher, artist, playwright, composer and novelist of the late 19th and early 20th century...

Gamal Nkrumah recalls a recent photographic pronouncement of the aesthetic paradoxes of Africa