Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
4 - 10 March 1999
Issue No. 419
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Back issues Current issue

Nafie Ibrahim Nafie:
Shattered promises

Women
A movement for all seasons

Kids
Of aunts, swans and genies

Kazazian
Don't tell Cairo

 

'An archaeological super bowl'
Giza Plateau
For the first time ever, an American television network has broadcast live coverage of excavations on the Giza Plateau. Nevine El-Aref saw it happen
Echoes of war
Israel's latest offensive against Hizbullah has proven a fiasco. How long can Netanyahu remain between a rock and a hard place? wonders Zeina Khodr in Beirut
Student power to the rescue
Lebanese students shocked their government and the world when they liberated with their bare hands, the Lebanese flag and national songs, the occupied village of Arnoun. Zeina Khodr reports from south Lebanon

Israel's Lebanese factor
Israel's latest stand-off with Hizbullah may generate some new thinking in Israel about south Lebanon. But it is unlikely to change Binyamin Netanyahu's desire to keep hold of the Golan Heights. Graham Usher writes

Khatami strikes again
With the reformists' sweeping win in the first local council elections ever held in Islamic Iran, President Mohamed Khatami scored his greatest victory yet over the conservatives, writes Safa Haeri
Exit the PKK,
enter the Kurdish problem

Turkey might suffer international isolation as it escalates attacks on its European allies and continues its crackdown on members of the Kurdish minority, Gareth Jenkins writes from Istanbul


 
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