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SAFIYA'S STRUGGLE: While the world pauses for a day on 8 March to remember the women who gave up their lives for freedom, but also to think of the ordinary women whose daily struggle is equally eloquent and enduring testimony to the fact that the cause is not yet won, Egyptians also commemorate another event: a demonstration by more than 500 women on 16 March 1919, held one week after the British occupation authorities arrested nationalist leader Saad Zaghlul and banished him to Malta. Another women's demonstration led to a clash with British troops. Many of the women who took to the streets were taking a great step for womankind, but also a small step for themselves -- out of the harem, and into the often harsh light of public life. --read on--
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On the road
The itinerary of Gaddafi's visit to Egypt this week included a lot more than Cairo and Tripoli's common search for a solution to the Lockerbie standoff. Nevine Khalil followed the trail of the Libyan leader
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Getting tough with Israel
Willian Cohen's regional tour is aimed at rallying Arab support for US policy on Iraq and, perhaps, at stopping a Binyamin Netanyahu victory in the Israeli elections. Graham Usher writes
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Hillary 2000?
While Al Gore sizes up the White House, the First Lady is contemplating her own next move, writes James Zogby in Washington
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Islamism in transition
On 12 February 1949 Sheikh Hassan El-Banna, founder and Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood was assassinated. Fifty years later, Egyptian Islamism is undergoing major transformations. Diaa Rashwan predicts a new and more tolerant Islamism in the coming century
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Fiction in action
As Youssef Idris's story Beit min Lahm (House of Flesh) takes the stage at the House of Zeinab Khatoun, Nehad Selaiha surveys forty years of theatrical adaptation in Egypt
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