Al-Ahram Weekly - Limelight

Cannes comes in May

May is the sweet month that pays homage to nature and man alike. Trees, fields, gardens, and floral petals capture the ...

Anatomy of love

The sweet smell of flowers, the fields of green grass, the long daylight hours give us a new lease on life. Every little ...

Fasting is healing

Long before established religions, pre-historic man, as well as animals, instinctively refrained from eating when sick, ...

The flavours of Ramadan

Muslims not only refrain from food and drink during the daylight hours, but ideally refrain from the sins of the flesh, ...

‘If winter comes’

Feeling low in winter? The tired brain prefers to focus on winter’s woes and its body’s physical needs, rather ...

It should be spring

It is that mysteriously, magical, many-splendoured thing called love, bewitching and bewildering all mankind. Where ...

Hollywood loves Wicked

“The most wonderful time of the year” may have been ended, but in Hollywood it is just beginning. The holiday ...

What’s in our stars?

With joy in the air we cautiously bask in the light of hope. Our new year started with a bang, chasing out the woes of ...

The bells are ringing

From tower tops, cathedrals, domes and palaces, the rich peals of silver bells will ring in a merry Christmas and a happy ...

Our season of joy

This many splendored season of year’s end is hard to resist. Despite the apathy and lethargy that sucked out our ...

If winter is here

With December here and the new year is near, what are the visions of a better future? Always in pursuit of the unknown, innumerable ...

Only a paper moon

Is there any chance Benjamin Netanyahu and company will be arrested by the International Criminal Court? Not in a million, ...

Illusions of equality

“All men are created equal,” they cried as they etched in stone the greatest constitution of the “greatest ...

The drink that changed the world

If we missed celebrating its international day, 1 October, it is time to make amends. We turn to Africa, “the cradle ...