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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 22 - 28 October 1998 Issue No.400
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In an exclusive interview with Foreign Minister Amr Moussa, and in a separate story below, Dina Ezzat seeks to identify the parameters of Egypt's regional policy

'Israel is quite a different story'

Fixing the holes

The strains of war
Ibrahim Nafie

Methods of forgetting
Edward Said

All quiet
on the Turkish front
Turkish and Syrian officials have expressed cautious optimism over the outcome of two days of closed talks in Turkey's southern province of Adana, Atef Saqr in Damascus and Amberin Zaman in Ankara report

Deal? No deal?
On the seventh day there was no rest for American, Israeli and Palestinian leaders wrangling over a new peace accord in summit talks near Washington

Dead-end security
Peace talks seemed doomed even before Monday's attack in Beer Al-Saba'a, writes Khaled Amayreh from Jerusalem

B R I E F S
Crisis ends Road blocks Tennis time

Death on the tracks	'Too much to ask'? Nobody would have thought that meals distributed in state schools would lead to more than 2,000 pupils falling sick. Mariz Tadros opens up a lunch-box of scandal
The inhabitants of Kafr Al-Dawwar are still in the grip of shock and grief following Sunday's train crash. And, as Fatemah Farag reports from the scene of the tragedy, the reasons for the disaster are far from clear

Rebel with a cause
Drink Delirium

Actor, director, poet, playwright Naguib Surur was one of the most controversial figures of his generation. On the 20th anniversary of his death Mahmoud El-Lozy assesses the legacy of his tragically short life, and we publish a translated extract from his poem Tada'iyat Al-Sukr wa'l-Daya'

How green
was this valley

By Fayza Hassan