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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 9 - 15 July 1998 Issue No.385
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Al-Azhar
moves with the times
The 1,000-year-old Al-Azhar Mosque, "a place of prayer and learning", received a new lease of life after undergoing extensive restoration, reports Omayma Abdel-Latif

Priming the ground
Egypt and the United States are launching a strategic dialogue to fine-tune, as Dina Ezzat writes, bilateral relations and mutual expectations

'Playing with fire'
A limited Arab summit in Cairo took stock of the deadlocked peace process, and gave Washington more time to work on its three-month-old initiative to break the impasse, writes Nevine Khalil

Songs of war and jasmine
The prodigal daughter returns once more. She wins, and we love her for it

Profile by Amira Howeidy

Bright lights in a dark world

Last week the whirling dervishes of Istanbul came to Cairo. David Blake reviews the performance while Nur Elmessiri brings Jalal Al-Din Rumi's poetry into the picture

INSIDE
Arrogance and amnesia Edward Said	From Black America to Palestine Elaine C. Hagopian	The wonderful wizard of On Fayza Hassan