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Renewal in the Arab world was the title of this interesting two-day conference at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. Jack Lang, former Minister of Culture, the Institute’s director inaugurated the conference together with President Hollande.

Robert and Sonia Delaunay were known as pioneers in abstract art. However it’s mostly Robert who is known. A large retrospective of Sonia’s works shown at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris was therefore very welcome.

Paris being one of the most popular jazz cities, Duc des Lombards is a must!  Jan Lundgren Trio managed to take this difficult public by storm. A roar followed them especially after having played a song of their album Flowers of Sendai. This time he’ll play at the Swedish Club in Paris. 

Charlie Hebdo – the French satiric newspaper has been threatened before. Their satiric drawings against the Islamists have angered fundamentalists. Therefore the newspaper and its journalists have been under police-protection since the previous attack against its office in 2011. That didn’t prevent the assailants this time though…

Alexandria with its famous library used to be one of the world’s foremost literary centres. In modern times we have become acquainted with writers such as Naguib Mahfouz or Nawaal el Saadawi. Then Alaa el Aswani popularised the Arabic language with his widely spread books. How is the Egyptian literature scene doing today?