Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
29 Apr. - 5 May 1999
Issue No. 427
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

Forced to accept false logic
To be "for" or "against" NATO, writes Edward Said, is to have succumbed to the propaganda campaign of quick fixes and easy ethnic solutions

Toward the broader horizon
There is more to a state than a declaration. Mustafa Al-Barghouti suggests the measures to be taken

The 4th of May test
On 4 May next, Arafat will have to take a fateful decision on the future of the Palestinian state. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed discusses the stakes at hand

Moving away from violence?
Diaa Rashwan contemplates the implications of a potential Islamist shift from violence to party politics

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
An impostor syndicate
It seemed at first that the story had been fabricated: an electrician, a member of the Print Workers Syndicate, had obtained false documents enabling him to set up a "Free Journalists' Syndicate" as a rival to the legal Press Syndicate --read on--

Editorial
Removing the stain

Naguib Mahfouz
Up in arms
The war in Kosovo has gone on for too long, a little like a novel that soon becomes boring because the end is too far away -- except, of course, that in this war the suffering and death is all too real --read on--

Soapbox
Back to 1947

Salah Issa


This week:
Princess Anne

 

 

 
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