Islam - the battle for modernity?

Available for over a year

A pick of this week's broadcasts on the BBC World Service. The battle for modernity in the Islamic world, one reporter visits Egypt in his latest quest to find out who is winning. Also, the Mona Lisa smile is it genuine or just plain genius? Is America a country of contradictions? !00 years of John Steinbeck, the mathematical mystery that is the sound of the whip, and some South African jazz.