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18 - 24 June 1998
Issue No.382
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Time to set an agenda
What form an Arab summit? Ibrahim Nafie
Editorial:
Sanctions harm
only civilians
Close up: Opium fields
Salama A. Salama
As politics grow ever more insipid in the Arab world, the World Cup frenzy gains in momentum. People have followed the teams' progression toward or away from the cup with fascination. --read on--
Naguib Mahfouz
The parity pitfall
Some people had expected that the new world order would put an end to the arms race. They must be quite let down.
A European boycott of Israeli goods?
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed considers unconventional ways out of the present impasse in the Middle East peace process
Bahgory
This week:
Ehud Barak
Prisoners of their own war
Changes in technology and international relations have rendered Israel's obsession with "security" both obsolete and absurd, writes Amin Hewedy
Truthful lies, respectable murder
The Egyptian-Israeli peace offensive is a new form of biological warfare, writes Radwa Ashour

Soapbox:
Working for consensus
Mona Zulficar

Letters to the Editor