Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
8 - 14 April 1999
Issue No. 424
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Back issues Current issue

NATO has failed
The US-led intervention in the Balkans was never likely to alleviate the sufferings of the Kosovars, writes Eqbal Ahmad, for it is itself merely a symptom of a larger injustice

Doubts and diplomacy
Italy is the full NATO partner which is nearest to the theatre of operations in Kosovo. Samia Nkrumah reports from Rome on reactions to the crisis

Prisoners of history
As a Cypriot school expels American and British students in retaliation for the NATO strikes against Yugoslavia, Hamza Hendawi in Nicosia reflects on the origins of the pro-Serb hysteria sweeping the Greek majority of the divided island
Flight from the truth
A Dutch parliamentary investigation into the crash of flight LY 1862 six years ago has shown Israel in a most unsavoury light, writes Mouin Rabbani
The African connection
The least connected continent is reaching out to the information age, South Africa's Minister of Telecommunications Jay Naidoo tells Gamal Nkrumah in an exclusive interview
 

 

 
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