Arabic collection. Foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal.

The life of a passionate publisher /Peter Clark -- We need bridge-builders : no survival for the world without a global ethic / Hans Küng -- I do not recall / Alaa Al Aswany ; translated by Charlotte Judge -- From the German Library to the library of thought / Joachim Sartorius -- The Gingko Library / Harry Hall -- Egypt in 1919 : founding year of the American University in Cairo / T G Fraser -- The early novels of Gamal al-Ghitani : a personal appreciation / Rasheed El-Enany -- Seeing Egypt through artists' eyes / Bruno Ronfard ; translated by Simon Pare -- Shakespeare in Kabul / Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan -- Mohamed Ali Pasha, merchant, warrior and statesman / Prince Abbas Hilmi -- Living history in Cairo's City of the Dead : conservation of the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfiq / Agnieszka Dobrowolska and Jarosław Dobrowolski -- Hope on the horizon for Egypt's unemployed youth / Sarah E Schwepcke -- Goodbye, my friend : the search for the mummy of Queen Nefertiti / Zahi Hawass.