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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 3 - 9 December 1998 Issue No.406
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Cairo-Ankara draw closer
Egypt will work on bolstering bilateral relations with Turkey, focusing on economic ties, during President Mubarak's upcoming visit to Ankara, writes Nevine Khalil

Summit seeks African peace
Cairo's Africa policy was brought to the fore last week at the 20th Africa-France summit held in Paris. Al-Ahram Weekly looks at Egypt's efforts to bring peace to the conflict-plagued continent

Nafie
Crossing a new threshold
Culture, business and politics must cement the ties that bind Egypt and Turkey, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Tunneling under
the Fatimids
The giant digging machine Nefertiti will begin work on the Al-Azhar tunnel later this month. But, asks Gihan Shahine, will the project resolve the traffic problems in this congested area?

A step toward statehood?
In what could be a warm-up manoeuvre, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat have inaugurated a US-Palestinian commission in Washington to channel $900 million in new American aid to the West Bank and Gaza. --read on--

Wye in danger

Prisoners to Wye
Palestinians feel betrayed by the Wye River deal, which ignored crucial issues such as the release of political prisoners in Israeli jails and the expansion of Jewish settlements, reports Khaled Amayreh from Jerusalem

Bad state in final status
Israel might be ready to accept a Palestinian state, but it will not include much more land than what the Palestinians already have, writes Graham Usher

A good week
for Hizbullah
As Israel reviews its Lebanon strategy after more losses in the south, the country's new president is facing his first crisis. Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut

Hands off
Salama A. Salama

The language of Wye
By Hassan Nafaa

A longer view
Edward Said sees hope in such examples of dogged determination and resistance as are offered by Bir Zeit University

'Our house'
For three decades Gabriel Baramki was vice-president of Bir Zeit University. Now he plays a leading role in raising international awareness about the dispossession of the Palestinians but, as Mariz Tadros found out, his conversations often lead him back to "our house"

Silver screens, not linings, and without a single cloud in sight: The first week of the film festival is over. What does John Malkovich think? Can you dance? And the latest films from Iran

Tingle tango
Costume dramas
Keeping a distance
The screen! The sound

Palace tales