The National News : La culture arabe prend le monde d’assaut

Abu Dhabi Book Fair. General image for gallery. Antonie Robertson/The National

Des romanciers aux cinéastes, cette semaine en est une pour célébrer une nouvelle génération d’artistes de la région.

Visitors to Alexandria’s Corniche, a road that stretches along the Egyptian city’s coast, experience one of the busiest thoroughfares in the modern Middle East. Less obvious is that at points they are mere feet away from underwater stone ruins that for thousands of years have been submerged reminders of the pivotal role that the region has played in world culture. LINK TO ARTICLE