Issue No. 750
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Update 9/7/2005
Cairo mourns murdered diplomatA deep sense of shock has fallen over Egypt at news of the murder of its chief diplomat to Baghdad, reports Dina Ezzat A radical shake-up?
New editors and board chairmen of 10 state-affiliated press organisations were appointed this week. Gamal Essam El-Din explores the new dynamic A controversial law
Before adjourning for its summer recess, the People's Assembly passed a controversial law aimed at regulating political parties. Gamal Essam El-Din reports  Complicated delay Will the postponement of opposition leader Ayman Nour's trial affect his chances of running in the upcoming presidential elections? Mona El-Nahhas seeks answers Soul-searching in Sirte
In Sirte African leaders seek to accelerate unity and stress the fight against poverty, disease and war, writes Gamal Nkrumah 'We shouldn't lose hope'
Journalists are up in arms against Article 48 of the new political rights law. Salonaz Sami reports Bush book incites controversy
Al-Azhar is being criticised for sanctioning a highly controversial US biography of Prophet Mohamed. Gihan Shahine sifts through the 19th century tome to find out why Writing on the walls
More than 20 frescos have been uncovered in the newly inaugurated Beit Al-Sitt Wassila, reports Nevine El-Aref Twice as dead
After a nine-months protest at the closed Ora-Misr plant, workers take their demands to the GFTU, reports Faiza Rady  No, not now
Amman meeting fails to find answers to questions haunting the Palestinian Authority, Khalid Amayreh, in the West Bank, reports The democratic challenge
Hamas has discovered a weapon even more powerful than the suicide bomb -- the ballot box, writes Graham Usher in Qalqiliya An Iraqi powderkeg
Recent kidnappings in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk have increased sectarian strife, reports Nermeen Al-Mufti from Baghdad Remembering the poor?
The application of the new 20 per cent social allowance for government employees and public sector wages begins in July. Wael Gamal explores its motives and consequences for the economy  In search of Algerian women
The Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar was elected to the Académie française in June, the first woman from the Maghreb to be elected to this prestigious French conclave, writes David Tresilian in Paris A silence vocalised
Recently in Beirut, Youssef Rakha witnesses two sides of post-war night life A story of content
Rania Khallaf follows up on the e-publishing phenomenon |
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An anti-globalisation activist confronts riot police lines in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, on the eve of the upcoming G8 summit in Gleneagles  The Wall: We are no longer able to see the sun set
by Andrew Rubin
 Muhammad Ali: A view from the new world
by Roger Owen
'Pessoptimism'
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that a breakthrough towards overcoming conflict is still an unattainable goal One-way street
The Muslim Brotherhood is looking increasingly outdated as it fumbles towards a political platform, writes Hossam Tammam Mr Bush's war
Iraqis and Americans are killed in ever-increasing numbers because of the Bush administration's interventionist policies, writes Immanuel Wallerstein One-way street
The Muslim Brotherhood is looking increasingly outdated as it fumbles towards a political platform, writes Hossam Tammam Only what we are told
In the hands of the wrong people, "freedom" becomes tyranny, "democracy" legitimacy, writes Ramzy Baroud Singing for Africa
by Salama A Salama Editorial: Set difference aside
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