This week marks the end, 80 years ago, of a very exceptional phase in Egypt's history. For a month, the country was in a state of effervescence: from Alexandria to Aswan, Copts and Muslims united in an uprising that shook the Empire. Peasants, effendis, women, workers and students took to the streets and the fields in a massive show of civil disobedience, cited by Gandhi as an inspiration to the Indian people's struggle for liberation. --read on--

No end to exodus The Western allies are expanding the campaign against Yugoslavia. Targets could include government buildings in Belgrade

To rouse a sleeping giant The European Union's Berlin Declaration is a clear endorsement of Palestinian national rights. But, as Graham Usher writes from London, will it be translated into action?

Forbidden fruit The EU and the US are set on a collision course that may well bring down the magnificent free trade edifice they have spent so long constructing -- and all because of a piece of tropical fruit. Peter Snowdon takes a closer look at the politics of Musa sapientum

Closer to God As Fatemah Farag and photographer Sherif Sonbol are swept up in the ecstasy of the zikr, they discover worship beyond ordinary rites and rituals