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'Determined to stay the course'
President Mubarak, addressing a meeting of the US Council on Foreign Relations via satellite, urged Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak not to relinquish "a golden opportunity" for Middle East peace
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'Encouraging
NGO participation
After planting a tree in Heliopolis on Sunday, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak inaugurated the first hospital in the Middle East for the treatment of children's tumours. --read on--
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Feminists seek unity
Egyptian women at a recent meeting agreed they should have a union and stage a local march on Women's Day next year. However, as Nadia Abou El-Magd reports, disagreements quickly surfaced
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What's in a name?
A quarrel between Egypt and Iran over the name of a Tehran street, called after President Sadat's assassin, is likely to be defused sooner rather than later. Dina Ezzat sounds out the views of both sides
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Open doors to Tehran
Both Iran and its Arab neighbours will benefit from improving ties. However, the dispute between the UAE and Iran over the ownership of three Gulf islands will remain a serious obstacle to closer ties, writes Abdel-Azim Hammad
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Affirming an Islamic identity
Delegations from around 80 Islamic countries and organisations will tomorrow declare the recommendations of their International Islamic Conference. Mona El-Nahhas reports
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Shifting fortunes for Ulama front
The saga of the Front of Al-Azhar Ulama continues, reports Mona El-Nahhas, with members winning one round in their legal battle for survival, but losing the next
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The heat is on at the Press Syndicate
More than 3,500 journalists will vote on Monday to choose a Press Syndicate chairman and 12 council members. Shaden Shehab looks into some of the candidates' programmes
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Normalisation on trial
Following the resumption of hearings in a libel suit brought by Youssef Wali against the mouthpiece of the Labour Party, agricultural normalisation with Israel was thrown into sharp focus. Gamal Essam El-Din attended
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'Lenient' sentences by military court
The Supreme Military Court has sentenced 20 Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya militants to jail terms, and acquitted one. The fact, writes Khaled Dawoud, that none of the accused received a death sentence was viewed as a development of positive significance
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Jihad leader faces US charges
As the US officially accused Egyptian Jihad of involvement in the bombing of its embassies in Africa, a London-based militant charged that Britain leaked confidential information to Egypt as well as European governments. Jailan Halawi reports
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When greed costs lives
Ten people were killed and 16 injured when the two-level storehouse of a plastic factory under construction in a satellite city collapsed on Saturday
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Hawkeyes upgraded
The air force is being modernised, with the US providing new technology to upgrade early warning and control system aircraft. Amira Ibrahim reports on the deal
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