Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
12 - 18 November 1998
Issue No.403
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Current issue | Previous issue | Site map
Pot

Pourri Born to sleep
By Fayza Hassan

Restaurants

Till the cows come home
Tarek Atia tries a little "down home" culinary tourism

SufraDayma

Rice with khalta
By Moushira Abdel-Malek
School girls Room for improvement
Poverty, conservative social attitudes and the remoteness of many villages are keeping illiteracy rates among girls very high. Can the One-classroom Schools solve the problem? Aline Kazandjian investigates
Nadia A period of grace
Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Nadia Makram Ebeid ordered the suspension of work in the two copper and lead foundries at 10 Ramadan City, pending the reconciliation of their positions with Environment Law (4/1994), Mahmoud Bakr writes