A visual art exhibition that will include specially commissioned new art works in different media by eight artists based in Egypt. The exhibition takes Taha Hussein's 1936 book "The Future of Culture in Egypt" as its starting point. The same questions of identity, modernity, and cultural relationships to "the West" that Hussein had faced still haunt Egypt and other Arabic speaking countries today. The exhibition is an attempt to go beyond the written word in addressing these issues, embracing visual art as a vocabulary that might reveal fresh insights.