From Sign and Sight, Alger la Blanche: Sonja Zekri visits Algiers, the city that's to play cultural capital of the Arab world. Save the Casbah: In Algiers, preservationists race to rescue the storied quarter. But is it too late? Of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World only the Pyramids of Giza still stand; the rush of activity in the United Arab Emirates comes just in the nick of time to replenish the list. 

From Chronicles, an article on Kierkegaard and the Camera. An interview with Patrick McGilligan, author of Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only—The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker. The insider: Douglas Kennedy on why authors should expect the worst when their novel is turned into a film. Men Know from Homer, Women from Marge: Sure, we ogle "The Osbournes" and love "Everybody Loves Raymond." But when

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