Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
18 - 24 March 1999
Issue No. 421
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Back issues Current issue

Yehudi Edward Said: Music of men's lives

Nafaa
Hassn Nafaa:
What price will innocence exact?

Abdel-Halim
Abdel-Halim Ibrahim
profile by Fayza Hassan

Power across the Gulf
King Abdullah II and President Mubarak Africa and Asia hooked up this week, with Egypt and Jordan forging the link. Nevine Khalil, in Taba, watched the sparks go off

A state without borders
Yasser Arafat is due to meet President Clinton next week in Washington. Graham Usher wonders whether the meeting will signal the end of the Palestinians' "right" to declare a state unilaterally
Stalled action
As Arab foreign ministers opened a two-day conference in Cairo yesterday, there was little hope, if any, that they could take positive action on the Iraq crisis, report Dina Ezzat and Rasha Saad.

Vessels adrift:
Potter The future of Cairo's potters hangs in the balance between the decisions of the Cairo Governorate and the concerns of the General Organisation of Cultural Palaces (GOCP).

Unity in diversity
Are Egyptian women's demands today different from those of the past? And which past are we talking about, anyway? Mariz Tadros wonders

 
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