Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
4 -10 February 1999
Issue No. 415
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Back issues Current issue


INSIDE
Nafie Three nations,
four days

Ibrahim Nafie

Iqbal Ahmad
A Jihad against time
Eqbal Ahmad

Reader
At the Book Fair:
Seminars and books, coverage and reviews


Putting out the fire
Taking on the challenges of economic globalisation: the main issue raised at this century's last World Economic Forum. Gamil Ibrahim writes from Davos

Rivers of green
The current stage of the massive Toshka project, aimed at nothing less than the creation of a new Nile Valley, is far from completion, yet work is proceeding apace. Samir Sobhi was there.

Jane Eyre and the Caliph
On the fringes of the Fair, Pascale Ghazaleh enters another dimension

What population and development problems have been solved in the past five years? Mariz Tadros looks back at the ICPD, and forward at what remains to be done
Five years for Fathiya
Fathiya The ICPD+5 NGO Forum will meet today and tomorrow in The Hague to discuss the progress made since they met five years ago in Cairo. Al-Ahram Weekly looks at progress -- or the lack thereof -- here in Egypt
Progress of sorts
NGOs have been extremely vocal in their opposition to female genital mutilation. But what have they actually done?

 
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