Le club de lecture du Caire : histoires et stéréotypes

Mon groupe de lecture était fréquenté par de jeunes Égyptiens à l’étiquette ‘gauchiste’, ‘profane’ et ‘islamiste’. Ensemble, nous avons surmonté ces divisions artificielles

How my Cairo bookclub changed my view of Islamists

When I set up a reading group, it brought young Egyptians labelled ‘leftist’, ‘secular’ and ‘Islamist’ together. Through our meetings we overcame these artificial divisions

Will Egghead CJ de Mooi regret admitting he might have killed somebody?

Amsterdam police are investigating the BBC star’s claim that he once punched a man and threw him into a canal. But, as others have showed in the past, sometimes the urge to confess is just too much to resist …

‘Narrow-minded’ Sweden hails stage version of acclaimed Norwegian novel

A book by Karl Ove Knausgaard, who criticised the Swedes, has been successfully taken to Stockholm

The Danish Girl review – Eddie Redmayne’s swan neck is best thing in pain-free transgender melodrama

The story of Danish gender reassignment pioneer Einar Wegener and her transformation into Lili Elbe becomes a handsome but over-tasteful film in director Tom Hooper’s hands

Beasts of No Nation brings Netflix to Venice with beauty and horror

Cary Fukunaga’s violent film about child soldiers in Africa impresses festival audiences despite its controversial backing from video on demand service

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine review – the ugly truth of racism

Claudia Rankine challenges the reader to question their own assumptions about race

Guinness World Records confident of future as it celebrates 60th anniversary

One of world’s best-known brands, which sold 2.75m books last year, says new attractions are planned where people can try to set their own world records

Pope Francis sends letter praising gay children’s book

Italian book that explores different family types including same sex was banned by mayor of Venice, but pontiff becomes unlikely supporter

Hunger Games studio plans trilogy on life of Julius Caesar

The three epics will be based on British author Conn Iggulden’s series of five novels about the rise and fall of the Roman leader

Tutu, Klein and Chomsky call for mass climate action ahead of Paris conference

Artists, journalists, scientists and academics among 100 signatories calling for mobilisation on scale of slavery abolition and anti-apartheid movements

Prince Cinders, the spotty hero who made me hang up my tiara

Babette Cole’s deliciously irreverent tale subverted the Cinderella story – and set me on the path to feminism

Hair today, gone tomorrow: Margaret Atwood in Canada censorship row

Author’s satirical piece on prime minister Stephen Harper’s hair is removed within hours of publication on National Post website: ‘Did I just get censored?’