One of the Arab world's great stories gets a new lease of life

Naguib Mahfouz's 'The Thief and the Dogs' has been adapted into a graphic novel, in a compelling version that does justice to it and may take it to a younger audience

Tarek Emam

Falling Into Oblivion

In the late 1980s, after her graduation from the Alexandria University’s Fine Arts Faculty, Enas Khamis thought of environment-friendly ways of making paper rather than cutting trees. She found…

Salwa Samir

Batiking For a Living

Samar Hassanein graduated from the Faculty of Art Education in 1998. She worked in pottery for some years and took part in many local exhibitions. She then entered the world of candles and also…

Salwa Samir

Jiggery-wokery

Given that it has become the bugbear of all right-thinking right-wingers, does it strike anyone as odd that the word ‘woke’ is almost unheard, except in the protestations of right-wing people? I have…

Bryn Haworth

Fun Loving Criminals?

Bath is a small gem of a city in the west of England, named after hot springs which exist nowhere else in the British Isles – the other spas are all cold. I have known the place, and worked there…

Bryn Haworth