Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
24 - 30 September 1998
Issue No.396
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Knowledge and civilisation
Kofi Annan outlines key aspects of the crisis of knowledge in the developing countries of the South to the academic community of the industrially advanced North
Domestic crises, foreign confusion
Arab unity is the only antidote to an increasingly paralysed US presidency, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Close up
Justice is served
Salama A. Salama
After a long, fierce battle fought on the pages of newspapers and in courtrooms between former Minister of Interior Hassan El-Alfi and several journalists from the opposition newspaper Al-Shaab, a peaceful resolution has been reached. --read on--

Belonging to more than one class
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that the complexities of modern life should not defeat our resolve to uphold conceptual tools that have survived the test of time

Bearding the lion in his den
Will it be war? Asef Bayat examines shifting power configurations, the irony of probable alliances between oil, religion, ethnicity and obscurantism, and whether the Afghan people can topple the Taliban

In a tight spot,
or down a slippery slope?
What are the US and the UK up to now? Hassan Nafaa mulls over the latest developments in the Lockerbie case

Editorial
A tolerable constituency
There was a sharp contrast between the humiliating spectacle of United States President Bill Clinton's televised testimony admitting an affair with Monica Lewinsky, the now notorious young White House intern, and his ceremonious address to the United Nations that dealt mostly with the problem of terrorism. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
Out of context
Some people like to say that I hated President Nasser, and bore him a grudge because I had supposedly suffered under his regime. Quoting some of my remarks while omitting others, people tend to pick and choose those of my words that best express their own views on Nasser. --read on--

Soapbox
After the party
Ahmed Abdel-Halim


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