Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
13 - 19 May 1999
Issue No. 429
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Index of issues This week's issue

In a different world
Ibrahim Nafie takes stock of global changes at the dawn of a new millennium

A true struggle, a good man
Humanity and genuine secularism had no finer champion -- Edward Said remembers Eqbal Ahmad, who died this week in Islamabad

Kosovo and the Arabs
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that the Arabs cannot side only with the Albanian Kosovars. Arab interests entail a more even-handed approach

The crisis of the third way
Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil examines recent attempts to balance economic exigencies with social equity

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Stiff upper lip
A major British newspaper recently published a giant cartoon showing Egyptian billionaire Mohamed El-Fayed as a cowering dog being told off by British Home Secretary Jack Straw, who refused to grant him British nationality. --read on--

Editorial
The lesser evil?

Naguib Mahfouz
Vote for a change
I am very pleased that the popularity of the Israeli Labour Party is increasing in the run-up to the forthcoming elections. --read on--

Soapbox
Preventing rape

Mohamed Emara


This week:
Kosovo refugees

 

 

 
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