Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
19 - 25 November 1998
Issue No.404
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Signposts to where?
Israel edged closer to implementing the Wye River agreement after it won the Knesset's approval. But the wrangling continues

An Israeli
'ethnic' bomb?
A British newspaper report that Israel is developing an 'ethnic' biological weapon has been greeted with scepticism. Galal Nassar investigates

Working for peace and prosperity
President Hosni Mubarak will start a three-day visit to France next week to take part in a French-African summit attended by 40 African leaders and French President Jacques Chirac.

Action plan for the 21st century
In a keynote speech on Saturday to a joint session of the People's Assembly and Shura Council, President Hosni Mubarak addressed a wide array of domestic and regional issues

Liberalisation bills in the offing
As the new parliamentary session gets under way, the government plans to submit three controversial economic bills to the People's Assembly. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Islamist international readies for London conference
Several militant Islamist groups are planning a conference in London to discuss the challenges confronting Islam -- and the threats facing them. Khaled Dawoud reports

Narrow escape
After Saddam Hussein backed down in his latest confrontation with the US, reports from Washington and London now say that the next step is to topple the Iraqi leader, writes Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent on Iraqi affairs

Meteors
Heavenly fireworks
It was a celestial extravaganza in Asia, though only a couple of shooting stars were visible in Cairo's smoggy skies on Tuesday night
Mattar
Out of Wye, a new reality
Gamil Mattar
Mohamed S. Said
State terrorism, people's democracy
Mohamed El-Sayed Said
Summit plan
UN returns
iraq women New anthologies of Iraqi writing, brought out by Ishtar Publishing, foreground the human cost of the Iraqi tragedy. Below, Ferial J. Ghazoul reviews the collections while Denys Johnson-Davies translates one of the stories anthologised

A literary passage to besieged Iraq

Inside the garden

A bird hovering
over the moulid

This year the advent of Moulid Al-Sayeda Zeinab occurs exactly a month after Tawfiq Al-Hakim's centenary. Youssef Rakha finds the coincidence strangely compelling