Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
12 - 18 November 1998
Issue No.403
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The same old game
An orchestrated media campaign in the US seeks to discredit Egypt.Ibrahim Nafie detects the same pair of hands doing the conducting

The land-for-security tradeoff
Can the Wye Plantation Accord be regarded as signalling the resumption of the peace process when the basic trade-off no longer refers to the notion of peace? Mohamed Sid-Ahmed comments

Close up
An American soap opera
Salama A. Salama
The most recent crisis caused by Iraq's refusal to cooperate with UN weapons inspectors is threatening to develop into a military confrontation with the US --read on--

The weeks after Wye
The accord signed between Israel and the Palestinians in Washington two weeks ago has sent ripples through the stagnant waters of the peace process, writes Mahgoub Omar

Globalisation for all
We are witnessing the creation of a new global financial architecture, writes Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil, and this time, the developing nations should participate in its definition

Editorial
Murder by proxy
Since the day he took office as prime minister almost two and a half years ago, Binyamin Netanyahu has left no stone unturned in his efforts to undermine the peace process--read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
The tree of joy
The first time I heard of Taha Hussein, I was a student in secondary school. At the time, he was already a legend: everyone was speaking of Taha Hussein, because of the new ideas he was putting forth --read on--

Soapbox
The ides of May
Mohamed Sobeih


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