"II feel danger", announced the Cairo-based theatre director and playwright, Ahmed Al Attar. "I have always been an optimist, but now I am frightened." In late December, the British Council convened a debate at the Southbank Centre examining the role the arts and artists are playing in the social and political upheavals of the Arab world. We wanted to ask how, and if, the arts sector in the UK should respond; it was …
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:00PM on January 28, 2013