Al-Ahram Weekly

		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 12 - 18 November 1998 Issue No.403
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Back to square one?
The suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem last Friday has exacerbated already tense relations between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian factions opposed to both the Oslo and Wye peace accords. Khaled Amayreh reports from Jerusalem

Baghdad defiant, as US ponders options
While Iraq dug in its heels, Washington was considering new options to deal with Saddam Hussein's latest defiance, writes Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent on Iraqi affairs

A gulf of opinion over Iraq
As the US becomes more impatient with Iraq, the Gulf states are becoming increasingly in favour of a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Mervat Diab gauges on the mood in the oil-rich region

Stealing land again
Israel's theft of fertile soil from south Lebanon and its plans to divert water to northern Galilee is threatening the future of residents of the occupied zone. Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut

A recent visit to Turkey took Reda Hilal, Al-Ahram's senior political correspondent, first to the disputed Iskenderun or Hatay region claimed by both Turkey and Syria. He reports here on how he found that most residents of Iskenderun identify themselves as Arabs, yet their loyalty is to Ankara. Subsequently, he travelled to Turkish Kurdistan, where he witnessed the deteriorating living conditions of millions of Kurds and visited the remains of several villages burned and forcibly evacuated by the heavy-handed Turkish army

Talking Arabic, feeling Turkish
Turkish Kurdistan: The extinction of a forgotten people