Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
10 - 16 February 2000
Issue No. 468
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Edward Said
Edward Said:
The right of return, at last

Hassan Nafaa
Hassan Nafaa:
Peace in whose time?

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
From Seattle
to Davos ..
via Moscow!

Antoune Albert
Antoune Albert:
Shooting in sunlight

Profile by
Fayza Hassan

Umm Kulthoum
Umm Kulthoum Story


Millennium issue
20th century Special issue
50 Years of Dispossession The complete archive of the
Special pages commemorating
50 years of Arab dispossession
since the creation of the State of Israel

Nour Ezzeddin
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: Two-year-old Nour Ezzeddin, wounded in an Israeli helicopter attack, is recovering in a hospital in Tyre. In Israeli logic Nour, and ten other children wounded in its Tuesday attacks on civilian installations in Lebanon, will remain legitimate targets so long as the Lebanese government fails to "rein in" Hizbullah.

'Lebanon will burn'
Israeli threats, and actions, turn the peace process upside down

Israel's operation darkness
Violence is expected to escalate in Lebanon following Israel's attack against power stations which plunged the country into darkness. Ranwa Yehia reports from Beirut


A loser's game
Desultory performances in the Nations Cup are par for the course, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Rough ride for EgyptAir
A plane crash, a co-pilot accused of committing suicide, and now a pilot seeking asylum in London are only symptoms of EgyptAir's crisis. Nadia Abou El-Magd reviews the latest misadventure to befall the national carrier

Africa's new constitution
Dramatic changes are finally bringing the continent's legal systems into line with the aspirations of its people, writes Gamal Nkrumah


Time for the temporal
The struggle is coming to a head. The conflict between Islamism's two ultimately irreconcilable concepts -- divine authority and popular sovereignty -- is being decided in Iran today and, writes David Hirst, the reverberations will be felt throughout the Islamic world. At stake is whether Islamism is capable of the reform and evolution necessary for its survival in any form at all, or if it will condemn itself to inevitable self-destruction
Hans-Georg Gadamer Interpreting the world
As Hans-Georg Gadamer celebrates his 100th birthday, Ernest Wolf-Gazo assesses the impact of one of the century's leading thinkers
Willing and able
Sheikh Hosni The disabled rarely feature in Egyptian cinematic and literary production. Does this fact reflect general social apathy towards the mentally and physically challenged? Whatever the answer, Gihan Shahine finds that a Book Fair seminar dedicated to discussing disability is a big step forward
Palette Den in the Delta
King Den was an early dynastic king whose name is mentioned in literature of the late Pharaonic era. Now a discovery has been found that dates to the time of his rule, Nevine El-Aref reports

 
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EGYPTIAN Foreign Minister Amr Moussa yesterday left for Algeria and Morocco on a two-day visit aimed at trying to settle a procedural dispute over the Africa-European Union Summit scheduled to be hosted by Cairo in April. read on

Crew escape
FOUR crew members of the hijacked Afghan jet grounded at London's Stansted airport dramatically escaped early yesterday, amid speculation of an asylum motive for the hijacking. read on

Support rate
US SECRETARY of State Madeleine Albright told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that the Pentagon will accelerate its programme to provide training and material assistance to the opposition Iraqi National Congress at a rate commensurate with the organisation's capacity to absorb this support. read on



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