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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 24 - 30 December 1998 Issue No.409
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Iraq cancels UN flights?

No sooner had US-British air strikes ended than another stand-off appeared to be taking shape between Baghdad and the United NationsIraq has for the first time banned all United Nations

Mubarak urges restraint
A few hours before the end of the US-British strikes President Hosni Mubarak sent President Bill Clinton a message calling on the US to "immediately halt all actions against Iraq" and adding that the attacks were "seriously harming the Iraqi people and the region. --read on--

Two Hiroshimas, twenty Lebanons
Ashraf Bayoumi, a former UN officer who was in Baghdad during the strikes, tells Amira Howeidy that economic sanctions continue to pose the greatest threat to the lives of the Iraqi people

Media events, surreal season
America has always been a thoroughly confused and confusing place, but the events of last week set a new record, writes Mohamed Hakki from Washington

Survival as victory
Saddam Hussein may have pushed the US and Britain into the latest confrontation to prove that even military strikes cannot oust him, writes Al-Ahram Weekly's special correspondent on Iraqi affairs

After the Friday prayer at Al-Azhar, protesters took to the streets to condemn the US-UK attack on Iraq. --read on--

In an outpouring of fury against the US and Britain, university students, political, human rights and women's groups organised various protest actions during the 4-day attack on Iraq --read on--

Out of isolation
Ibrahim Nafie

Clinton's rampage Edward Said

Homeward bound
Salama A. Salama

Success penalised
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Mattar
America's war
against the Arabs
Gamil Mattar

After the winter bombs
Eqbal Ahmad

The real solution
Isam Al-Khafaji

Real results
Laila Takla

Between Iraq and a hard place
Will the strikes cause a shift in Egyptian foreign policy, if only on a limited regional scale? Dina Ezzat sounds some dangerous waters

Hero turns villain
From flag waving to flag burning. Khaled Amayreh, in Jerusalem, assesses the overnight transformation in Palestinian sentiments towards the US

'An impeachable offence'
Prominent American anti-war activist and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, spoke to Faiza Rady about the American bombing of Iraq

A political free-for-all
As Israel gears up for elections, opinion polls show Binyamin Netanyahu trailing former armed forces chief Amnon Shahak

No submission
Hitting back

My darling, my song-bird
A devoted fan who attended most of Umm Kulthoum's concerts, Maurice Guindi remembers a quarter century of personal elation

Epic of a nation
For 40 years, Umm Kulthoum's Thursday-night concerts were as major a national event as any in the Arab world. On this, the "alleged" centenary of her birth, Youssef Rakha contemplates a phenomenon

A government of God?

Al-Ahram Weekly returns to the fray with a new round of Ramadan Debates. This year, contestants will examine the Islamist project: has it failed, or does it continue to form a government-in-waiting? Omayma Abdel-Latif challenges Sheikh Rashed Al-Ghenoushi

Algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi is the recipient of this year's Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature. Below, the novelist's own address, together with an assessment of the cited novel
'To colleagues of the pen'
Memory and desire

Sometimes the city changes

Are our traditions marketable? Should we restore and conserve our built patrimony, let it deteriorate, or use it as we would any other commodity to revitalise our economy? These were a few of the questions asked at a provocative international conference recently held in Cairo. Fayza Hassan attended