The forgotten tribe

On the tenth anniversary of his death, Samir Sobhi pays oblique tribute to the late writer Ihsan Abdel-Quddous

The Hyde Park dream

A lukewarm round with neither stars nor interesting debates, writes Mohamed Shoair on this year’s Cairo Book Fair, despite the many positive achievements of the General Egyptian Book Organisation (GEBO) director Sabir Arab and his deputy Helmi El-Namnam in the brief period they have been in charge of the event

Brains propounded

While the award-winning translator Humphrey Davies spoke to his AUC audience of rebellion, passion and a journey guided by instinct, Injy El-Kashef was rapt

The virtuosity of Italy

Ati Metwali cherishes an unexpected miscelleny

Left hand, right hand?

As France hosts an ambitious Turkish cultural season with a major exhibition in Paris, the relationship between France and Turkey has rarely seemed less straightforward, writes David Tresilian

This Is Not Literature, My Love

Iman Mersal, These Are Not Oranges, My Love: Selected Poems, translated by Khaled Mattawa, Riverdale-on-Hudson, New York: The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008