Al-Ahram Weekly On-line
26 Nov. - 2 Dec. 1998
Issue No.405
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Spheres of agreement
Conflict resolution in Africa is just one of many issues addressed by the African-French Summit, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Globalism and bipolarity
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed believes that removing the ambiguities surrounding the notions of globalism and bipolarity in the present world order could improve the chances of finding a solution to the Iraqi crisis

Close up
Documents, not weapons
Salama A. Salama
The new demand put to Iraq to surrender data on its forbidden weapons to UNSCOM can only be a pretext cooked up by the US and Britain --read on--

Washington's predicament
America's Middle Eastern policy is in shambles, partly because of the Clinton administration's poor analytical acumen and largely because the tail that wags the dog does not really care about the dog's welfare. Eqbal Ahmad writes

Mobilisation, here and there
Afghanistan, Turkey and Kosovo: Ahmed Abdel-Halim seeks the threads of US strategy

Editorial
State piracy

Naguib Mahfouz
Pressed to the limit
I have followed the extraordinary crisis pitting the press again members of the People's Assembly in the past few days --read on--

Soapbox
Brigands in Babylon
Mu'ayyad
Al-Mulla Hussein


This week:
Ocalan