Al-Ahram Weekly On-line   Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
28 May - 3 June 1998
Issue No.379
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Mubarak and El-Hassan Defying the deadlock
Cairo is considering options to prevent the deadlocked peace process from falling into permanent stagnation. Dina Ezzat explores the alternatives

Joining hands Arafat urges Arab summit
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has called for an Arab summit, describing it as a Pan-Arab "national necessity". Rasha Saad reports on the Arab League's commemoration of 50 years of Palestinian dispossession

Journalists bemoan 'sad situation'
The number of journalists imprisoned for publication offences has risen to four in less than three months. Shaden Shehab follows the latest developments 		Tourist killers unrepentant to the end
Two brothers, sentenced to death for killing nine German tourists and their Egyptian driver, were hanged inside a Cairo prison on Sunday. Shaden Shehab reports
Azhar school reforms trigger controversy
Despite a storm of criticism, a draft law that cuts the four-year Azharite secondary school programme by one year has been approved by parliament's religious affairs and education committees. Gamal Essam El-Din reports on the controversy
Tremors at the Bar
Are Bar Association elections imminent? This is the million pound question which lawyers are asking today. Fatemah Farag checks out the possibilities
Obituary
The good doctor
Hashem Fouad (1927-1998) 		Briefs
Aida saved?
Viagra backlash
Emergency only