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19 - 25 July 2001
Issue No.543
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Palestine

Pulling the reins
Amid growing fears of a massive Israeli military strike against the Palestinians, a high-level Arab meeting gave the PA exactly what they wanted: more money and a non-belligerent tone towards Israel, reports Dina Ezzat

War by instalments
Whether Israel engages a massive military strike, or continues its war of attrition, the consequences for the Palestinians are appalling, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem


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Edward Said
The price of Camp David		 Edward Said
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
Liquidating Arafat 		Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Hassan Nafaa:
Israel prepares for war 		Hassan Nafaa

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Arafat and PeresOnly PR in Peres's pouch
More mixed signals from the Israeli government as Cairo played host to a meeting between Arafat and Peres, reports Nevine Khalil

Party in distress
Efforts to negotiate a deal for the revival of the frozen Labour Party have apparently collapsed, reports Khaled Dawoud

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Steadfast in Hebron
War is everywhere in Hebron and so is the Palestinian resistance. Graham Usher reports from a besieged, shell-shocked and inexhaustible city

Apartheid is alive and well
Arab Knesset members have denounced Israeli attempts to control Palestinian demographic growth in Israel and the occupied territories as "naked racism." Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

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Media
The most powerful weapons
Pascale Ghazaleh gazes through bulletproof glass 		Al-Aqsa harmed
Revoking the death warrant
How can UNESCO block Israel's bid to take over Jerusalem? Omayma Abdel-Latif chronicles a very political struggle, and speaks to the man in charge of the organisation's cultural schemes

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Africa unity then and now
Nkrumah and Nasser

Arson, race and rioting
Tony Blair may have won the elections, but he seems to be fast losing the depressed immigrant communities, writes Gavin Bowd

Selling an empty box
It comes as no surprise that the UN Human Development Report 2001 peddles transnational-backed genetic modification as the solution to world hunger, writes Faiza Rady

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Driven beyond the law?
Beyond proving expensive for gold dealers, the new sales taxes are undermining time-honoured ways of conducting business, writes Sherine Nasr

'Hooked on Egypt'
Outgoing British ambassador to Egypt, Sir Graham Boyce, speaks with Ghada Ragab about a more active role for British business in Egypt and for British foreign policy in the region
Marise Hilal
Marise Hilal:
Cultivating Cairo
Profile by Fayza Hassan Pot Pourri
Little green devils
By Fayza Hassan Restaurant review
Airs and graces
Injy El-Kashef plays the part

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Poetry
Anatomy of melancholy
Youssef Rakha enumerates the distress signals

Cinema
Rules of engagement
That's entertainment, and it's hardly challenging, writes Mohamed El-Assyouti

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Sign language
Lost in the labyrinth? Aline Kazandjian consults her map

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The wall
One little wall -- one big controversy. Nevine El-Aref in Abu Simbel and Rehab Saad in Cairo explore the tug of war involving the government and tour operators over Abu Simbel's newest addition


Down to the wire
Weekend results kept Egypt's World Cup hopes alive or, asks Nashwa Abdel-Tawab, is the inevitable just being delayed?

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