Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
15 - 21 April 1999
Issue No. 425
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

Sid Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
The water bomb

Nafaa
Hassan Nafaa:
The UN's death certificate

Hamdi Qandil
Hamdi Qandil:
profile by
Sajini Dularamani

Bahgory
The king of spring
Fayza Hassan whistles in the winde


A man at one with the people
Edward William Lane was the first Westerner to immerse himself totally in the lives of people of an alien culture. Jill Kamil writes about the great scholar, who wrote a book widely hailed as the most thorough description of a people ever produced
A passage to Asia

Mubarak President Mubarak is '100 per cent satisfied' with the outcome of his 10-day Asian tour. Nevine Khalil reviews the results

A new page for Algeria?
Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika is tipped to win today's presidential elections in Algeria, but his six rivals are charging fraud. Khaled Dawoud writes from Algiers

Balkans plan
The conflict in the Balkans shifted to the diplomatic front yesterday, when an informal meeting of the European Union discussed a six-stage German plan for peace in Kosovo. --read on--

The right debates isolationism
The Balkan war has exposed rifts not only between the two main US parties, but deep within the Republican camp itself, writes James Zogby

Aswan TALKING
WITH
STONES

At the Basma Hotel in Aswan, 15 granite pieces boarded side by side with their sculptors, enjoying all the benefits of a four-star hotel for two months. --read on--

Past rhetorics
History as Mythical Discourse in Modern Arabic Literature: the title of a recent conference hosted by Harvard University's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. Hossam Aboul-Ela attended

 
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Fruit Beyond
the last barrier

Think twice before you take that bite -- it could be genetically modified. Although Egypt remains cautious of letting in biotech imports, Gihan Shahine investigates what we could be eating tomorrow
Soccer The five-minute match
Zamalek players walked off the pitch only minutes after their game with Ahli began. Abeer Anwar reports on one of the more bizarre encounters in this famous rivalry

 


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