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After a whirlwind two-day stay in Cairo, Mrs Clinton and Chelsea left for Luxor on Tuesday, and spent the afternoon touring the Luxor Temple, where they were greeted by a throng of over 200 cheering tourists. Yesterday, they visited Tutankhamun's tomb and other sites in the burial grounds west of Luxor, paused at the Hatshepsut Temple, and met scholars to learn more about "the site where civilisation was born", as Ray Johnson, field director of the Chicago House Egyptology project, described the area.
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Not what they wanted
Despite a meeting in Washington between Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat, US approval of a Palestinian state hardly seems imminent, reports Hoda Tawfik from Washington
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'Standing up to brutality'
NATO forces are preparing for air strikes against Yugoslavia after the failure of diplomatic efforts to resolve the Kosovo crisis
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Around the world in 20 days
After doing what no one has done before, two record-making balloonists topped their achievement by landing in Egypt. Nashwa Abdel-Tawab was there for the touch-down
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The Pasha and the pilgrims
As the Eid approaches, and pilgrims prepare for the ritual sacrifice, Al-Ahram Weekly feasts on history -- specifically, the pilgrimage of 1833, which took place under the close supervision of Mohamed Ali. It has been 150 years since the Wali's death, and this year has witnessed the first commemoration in half a century. Here, we reproduce documents from the Collection of Ottoman Imperial Firmans Addressed to the Valis and Khedives of Egypt (1597-1904), Gathered at the Order of His Majesty Fouad I, King of Egypt, compiled by Haim Naoum Effendi
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