CONTENTS: ARCE News-- News from Cairo-- Arabic Writing Today: ”The Drama”-- News of Other Associations-- Antiquities News-- Fieldnotes: The Dakhleh Oasis Project-- Research on Syrian Immigrant Communities in Egypt / Thomas Philipp-- Excavations at Mendes / Margaret Harrison-- Qasim Amin and His Era / Charles D. Smith-- Franco-Egyptian Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth Century / Alain Silvera-- Excavations at Akhmim, Egypt: 1978 / Shelia J. McNally-- Festivals Commemorating Muslim Saints (Mulids) / Edward B. Reeves-- The Middle Commentaries on Aristotle’s Organon by Averroes / Charles E. Butterworth.