Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
9 - 15 July 1998
Issue No.385
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Editorial The right time
The UN General Assembly's decision to upgrade the status of the PLO mission to that of a non-voting member on Tuesday represents a small victory for the Palestinians on their path towards achieving their legitimate rights to self-determination and an independent state. --read on--

Globalising culture
In this second instalment on the issue of 'globalising culture', Mohamed Sid Ahmed describes some of the quandaries raised by the new rationale

Naguib Mahfouz
Moulid El-Nabi
The celebrations marking the birth of the Prophet on Monday are very different to those I remember from my youth. --read on--

Close up
Salama A. Salama
The past revisited
The memoirs of Naguib Mahfouz, edited and introduced by Ragaa El-Naqqash, are an invaluable resource, shedding light on Egypt's public life in the second half of the century. --read on--

Arrogance and amnesia
US foreign policy depends purely on the above. And it will continue to do so as long as we all concur, writes Edward Said 		This week:
Clinton and Zemin

Soapbox
The new economic disorder
Adel Bishai

Joint undivided sovereignty
What status Jerusalem? To establish the city as a condominium is one feasible option, argues John V. Whitbeck
Revamping the protest song
Diaa Rashwan explores the implications of the protests that erupted following the assassination of the Algerian Kabyle singer Matoub Lounes