Last Friday, at the Goethe-Institut in Cairo, Hany El-Metennawy’s theatre troupe El-Shanta (or ‘The Bag’), which he founded, staged the premiere of Nefertiti Queen of the City of Light, a stage reading, written and directed by El-Metennawy
LONDON Trains slowed to a crawl. Schools and doctors’ offices shut their doors. The British Museum closed its galleries. Buckingham Palace curtailed the changing of the.