Ibrahim Nafie:
Ending the evasion

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
Post-third way experimentation

Interview with Naguib Sawiris

Mursi Saad El-Din:
Broader horizons
Profile by
Gamal Nkrumah

The 'madness' ahead
Fears of Israel running rampage in Lebanon have made the prospects of withdrawal a bitter chalice

Accommodating Israel
The latest crisis in the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations exposes the ineffectiveness of both the US's presence in and the Europeans' absence from the Oslo process. Graham Usher writes from Jerusalem

Intellectuals' dilemma
Al-Shaab's orchestration of protests against a Syrian novel the majority of protesters have not read threatens to engulf far more than a single book, writes Mona Anis

Catching up with global progress
Denying reports of his impending candidacy in the coming general elections, Gamal Mubarak, a member of the ruling party and spokesman for the Egyptian-American Presidents' Council, insisted that the overall economic picture in Egypt was reassuring

Debating Holocaust denial
The libel trial initiated by David Irving, a British revisionist historian of Nazi Germany, against one of his critics has resurrected some nasty intellectual ghosts in Europe. Nadia Abou El-Magd reports on how the controversy is viewed on this side of the Mediterranean

In Retrospect
A year after NATO's assault on Yugoslavia, Naom Chomsky shows how evidence of crimes were adduced to provide retrospective justification for the war

Labour on the fence
As economic liberalisation and a vigorous privatisation drive reconstruct the very meaning of work in the country, Fatemah Farag -- in the second of a two-part exposé on labour issues -- investigates how workers are faring, both on the shop floor and off it -- on the dole queue Women's work
Midnight's children