Bilateral momentum
President Mubarak visited Egypt's top two European economic partners this week. Nevine Khalil looks at Cairo's bilateral commercial relations with Italy and Germany
Dealing with the deadline
While Yasser Arafat deliberates whether or not to declare a Palestinian state by 4 May, Cairo too is engaged in some delicate calculations. Dina Ezzat dissects the remains of a once glorious "peace process"
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Businessmen want parliamentary share
Fathi Sorour, addressing leading businessmen, was adamant that half of the seats in parliament be reserved for farmers and workers. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Arab Americans on the move
Arab American voters can influence US Middle East policy, but they are not being given sufficient attention, argue two leading Arab Americans. Aziza Sami writes
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Reconceptualising
the health service
Mrs Suzanne Mubarak on Sunday inaugurated a one-day surgery hospital in Nasr City. The recently introduced one-day surgery service was a clear indication that the health services were being improved on a scientific basis, Mrs Mubarak said at the inaugural ceremony. --read on--
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'A weakness, for which I
do not apologise'
Renowned political analyst Mohamed Hassanein Heikal was awarded the Gamal Abdel-Nasser Award for Arab Political Thought Sunday. The $50,000 prize was launched last year by the Lebanon-based Arab Unity Studies Centre to commemorate the Egyptian revolution of 23 July. --read on--
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Back to jail?
In less than a month, four journalists have been questioned by prosecutors in connection with charges of libel and the publication of allegedly false information. Shaden Shehab writes
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Their brothers' keepers
The London-based International Centre Against Censorship has held its first seminar on the political and cultural impact of satellite broadcasting in the Middle East. Amira Howeidy attended
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Tantawi's opponents go to court
An Azharite scholar is suing the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar for alleged libel. Mona El-Nahhas reports
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Disappearance compensation
The Cairo Court of Appeals ordered the Interior Ministry on Monday to pay LE100,000 in compensation to the wife of a Libyan dissident who disappeared while attending a conference in the Egyptian capital.
Bad blood
An elderly woman, who undergoes regular renal dialysis, has been diagnosed HIV positive, reportedly after receiving a contaminated blood transfusion. Nadia Abu El-Magd investigates
Subway failure
The power network serving Cairo's underground metro line broke down this week, disrupting railway traffic and causing long delays for three days. --read on--
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Making peace
in Africa
A second Egyptian military unit is departing today for the Central African Republic to join UN peace-keeping forces there. Amira Ibrahim reports
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Al-Ahram Weekly owes Ahmed Youssef, our colleague at the Paris bureau, an apology for erroneously publishing his picture in the last issue along with the obituary of Ahmed Youssef, the renowned restorer who re-assembled Khufu's solar boat.
 Our colleague is renowned in his own right. Born in Alexandria, he later moved to Cairo where he studied and later taught comparative literature. In 1992, he obtained a PhD from the Sorbonne with a thesis on Egypt in the French Imagination. Since 1995, he has worked at Al-Ahram's Paris bureau, where he has focused on East-West relations generally and Franco-Egyptian ties in particular.
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