Date: 21 - 27 May, 1998
Issue No.378
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line Date: 21 - 27 May, 1998 Issue No.378 |
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Editorial:
Samson kicked about Is the "new world order" cracking at the seams? It has received a bad beating, even from its friends. --read on-- |
Naguib Mahfouz
What you shall reap The peace process can be reactivated only by its main parties: the Americans, the Palestinians and the Israelis. While it is not involved in the conflict, the US is the only external party that can move the peace process forward, by holding tenaciously to its most recent initiative. On the Israeli side, some concrete change must occur, either by a change in the position of the Likud government, or by a change of the government itself. The Palestinians can be as effective in energising the peace process: any person, carrying no weapon but his fury against injustice and abuse, can conquer an armed oppressor. --read on-- |
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Lessons from Indonesia Salama A Salama The representatives of the fifteen nations who met in Cairo last week watched on television, and probably heard from President Suharto --read on-- |
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Did Marxism distort Marx's thinking?
Just back from the Paris meeting held to mark the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed describes some of its highlights |
Portrait of the week Suharto ... |
Reflections: The enemy's the same
The on-going celebrations in the West of "the Jew" self-realised, in the state of Israel, as Superman may be ironic. By Hani Shukrallah |
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Behind the mirage
The US has been turning the other cheek with alarming regularity as Netanyahu's insults grow increasingly virulent. Hassan Nafaa wonders where it will all end |
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Soap Box:
In the balance By Salah Eissa |
Fighting for acceptance
James Zogby reviews Arab American efforts to enter mainstream US politics and overcome adversity |