25 June - 1 July 1998
Issue No.383
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 25 June - 1 July 1998 Issue No.383 |
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or less stripes Ibrahim Nafie reviews recent developments in Asia and their likely ramifications |
Editorial
The butcher's block |
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| Close
up Football, not war Salama A. Salama The confrontation between the American and Iranian teams was an encounter of great symbolic meaning, possibly far surpassing, in its outcome and impact, the results themselves and the number of goals scored. --read on-- |
Naguib
Mahfouz Stopping the drain Six or seven years ago, I predicted here that eminent Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zuweil would receive the Nobel Prize for physics. --read on-- |
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| Israel's
nuclear edge blunted Mohamed Sid-Ahmed questions the relevance of Israel's continued silence on its nuclear capability after the Indian and Pakistani blasts |
 This week: Sheikh El-Shaarawi |
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| Reflections The bureaucrats behind the people Hani Shukrallah Last week, the Israeli Peace Now movement underlined both its Jewish supremacist (i.e. racist) limitations and its political bankruptcy by issuing in Cairo, with not one, but apparently three distinct Egyptian groups, a "peace document". --read on-- |
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desolation, and they called it peace Neither improvisation nor violence will help the creation and consolidation of institutions, writes Edward Said. We need to think clearly, not of Jews and Muslims, but of a secular concept of citizenship that will guarantee freedom and equality |
Soapbox Stuck in our throats By Mahgoub Omar |
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