Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
10 - 16 September 1998
Issue No.394
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Editorial
Turkey's choice
Despite Turkey's repeated denials that its alliance with Israel was not formed against any other country in the region, Arab states will continue regarding developments with concern, especially in the military field. --read on--

Close up
Two birds, one stone
Salama A. Salama
To the West, and the US in particular, there does not seem to be much difference between the rulers of Iran and the Taliban group in Afghanistan. Both countries are ruled by extremist Islamic men of religion who grow their beards and deny women most of their rights. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
Family matters
My nephew once came to visit me after I received the Nobel, and took some papers, books and photographs from my house. Apparently, he intended to set up a museum of some sort, but he did not do so. These things had no intrinsic value, of course; they merely brought back fond memories. It is not as if he had borrowed money or taken pieces of jewellery. --read on--
The age of shortages
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed expects that the next century, far from being an age of plenty, will witness even more critical bottlenecks than we are experiencing at present


This week:
Yeltsin

Soapbox
Whose double standards?
By Abdel-Moneim Said

Islam as refuge from failure
In Pakistan's five-decade long history, the promise of an "Islamic state" has recurred as the core symbol of failure, writes Eqbal Ahmad
Manufacturers of gloom
Every hour on the hour, a catastrophe is reported. Can things really be so bad? Or is the media providing what the public demands? Gamil Mattar ponders the question of demand and supply
Beyond hatred, beyond war
By working against all policies that deny people their basic rights, argues James Zogby, we can combat both terrorist violence and the immoral, inhuman US response to terror