Privatisation drive cash-strapped
The privatisation programme has recently gained momentum, but the government is in dire need of cash to push it forward. Gamal Essam El-Din takes a ride on the "privatisation train"
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BEYOND SKIN DEEP: American actress Brooke Shields was in Cairo this week literally lending an ear to the producers of an ambitious international multi-media project called Listen, which is attempting to draw awareness to the problems of children in both the developed and developing world. --read on--
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A window of opportunity
While the new Israeli government was taking shape, President Mubarak was holding intensive consultations with world leaders on reviving regional peace-making. Nevine Khalil reviews a week of intensive diplomatic activity
Barak's one-man show
The presentation of the new Israeli government was supposed to be a triumph for Ehud Barak's vision of One Israel. It did not turn out that way. Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem
Wider democratic space in Kuwait
The results of last Sunday's National Assembly elections in Kuwait could herald a new stage in the country's democratic development. Does this mean trouble lies ahead? Donald Benson writes from Kuwait
Taking Tiger Hill
A peace deal inches closer for Kashmir. But there is more to reconciliation than sharing a cup of tea, writes Gamal Nkrumah
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From myths to missiles
Is it possible to comprehend the tragedy that is Yugoslavia? From Bosnia to Kosovo, history is everywhere: the dead bury the dead, and the living rise again on the ashes of legends. Ottomans and Byzantines, great powers and petty rulers, East and West have locked horns here, irrevocably, time and again. And the Drina runs through it all... Who can find the thread that leads back through this labyrinth, to the beginning? Was Tito on the right track? Are the embers fated to reignite time and again? And where is the bridge that leads to the other side? Mohamed Hassanein Heikal meets bards and conquerors, lords and tyrants, adventurers and diplomats -- and watches as history exacts its revenge
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Catalan meditations
Nehad Selaiha ponders the challenges facing women and the theatre at a feminist meeting in Barcelona
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