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Check and mate: The candidates in Israel's prime ministerial elections seized photo ops galore as they squared off for competitions of a more sophisticated sort. --read on--
Divided as tribes, united in "peace"
With Israelis about to go to the polls, and Binyamin Netanyahu trailing behind, Graham Usher wonders why historic issues to do with peace, Oslo and Palestine have received so little attention
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A bomb too far?
Suddenly, against all the odds, the tide seems to have turned in the NATO-Yugoslavia war. Hoda Tawfik in Washington reviews a week of Allied blunders
'Hussein group' faces rising opposition
Internal conflicts in the Labour Party have taken a serious turn, with a number of prominent figures dissenting and organising an extraordinary general congress next week. Gamal Essam El-Din follows the evolving party battle
Kuwait pitches for a new parliament
Sheikh Jaber Al-Sabah's decision to dissolve the Kuwaiti National Assembly is being termed a "white coup" by pro-government lawmakers. Sherine Bahaa reviews the crisis
Furore over a headscarf
While Islamist MP Merve Kavakci insists that her headscarf is a personal choice and not a political symbol, the heavy-handed Turkish army does not agree, Gareth Jenkins reports from Istanbul
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Those who Cannes
The Arab presence at the Cannes film festival may be getting weaker, but Youssef Chahine's latest film, Al-Akhar (The Other) may well save the day. Youssef Rakha writes
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To Cairo with loveParis on the Nile is a just-released visual ode to Khedive IsmailÍs Cairo. Fayza Hassan meets its author
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Diversity in the face of adversity
In the face of the changing labour market, voices in favour of a new trade union structure in Egypt are getting louder. Fatemah Farag reports
The pot gets bigger
The Dreamland Tennis Classic was so successful that prize money has been increased by over $300,000.
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