Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
13 - 19 August 1998
Issue No.390
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Editorial
Cause and effect
The synchronised bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last Friday are, in essence, a declaration of war on the primary advocate and executor of the New World Order. --read on--

Close up     Fertile ground
Salama A. Salama
The success of international terrorism in breaking through seemingly impenetrable security barriers and outwitting advanced intelligence techniques in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam bombings lays bare a new fact. A far more complex form of terrorism has begun to flourish, spurred on to ever more horrifying peaks by US policy. --read on--

Clinton's predicament
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed looks into the paradox of the most powerful man on earth who, to avoid ignominy, might have to risk losing everything

Naguib Mahfouz
A feast for the ears
Two years ago, a century had passed since the birth of the great composer Zakariya Ahmed. Yet this momentous occasion passed apparently unnoticed by the relevant authorities. --read on--

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Ordinary torture
One should be thankful, I suppose, that torture is one of the few human rights violations which governments -- with possibly the single exception of Israel -- have not placed under the rubric of cultural specificity. --read on--

Redistribution over peace
The peace process is hardly a US priority, writes Gamil Mattar; after all, more important events -- a global revolution, for instance -- are taking place

A truly global age
Awatef Abdel-Rahman examines the impact of globalisation on values, culture and specificity


This week:
Yasser Arafat  
Soapbox
A century of surprises
By Taha Abdel-Alim