Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
23 - 29 July 1998
Issue No.387
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map

Mubarak appeal
Reflecting Egypt's growing impatience with Israeli policies President Hosni Mubarak yesterday appealed to the Israeli people "to take a stand appropriate to the... situation and the grave consequences that will result if the peace process collapses or reaches a dead end," reports Nevine Khalil

NDP

NDP congress
looks towards 21st century

After re-electing Mubarak as its chairman, the seventh congress of the ruling NDP entered two days of intensive debates, before finalising its recommendations. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Lockerbie trial proposal
The US administration changed its tune in its dispute with Libya over the Lockerbie bombing and said it was looking at how a Scottish court could sit in the Netherlands to try two Libyans suspected of blowing up a Pan Am airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. --read on--

The end of a long rope
Whatever the outcome of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, redeployment is likely to remain as far away as ever, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem

Waiting for 'creative ideas'
While Cairo prepares to play host to the president of Syria, Yasser Arafat provided President Mubarak with a negative report on talks with the Israelis.

'Old is gold'
To the delight of vendors and buyers alike, Cairo's famous second-hand book market has been restored to its original site. Gihan Shahine takes a stroll

Police officer in trouble over diary
A high-ranking police officer faces disciplinary charges for allegedly divulging information he acquired on the job -- albeit in a literary work. Omayma Abdel-Latif explores the bizarre case

FGM claims another victim
Female circumcision has claimed yet another life. Mariz Tadros reports on the tragic death of 11-year-old Mona Abdel-Hafez


INSIDE
After the final acre
Edward Said
The hunger gap
Jihan El-Alaily
A wedding ...
and three funerals