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During extensive discussions with a number of world leaders, President Hosni Mubarak this week compared notes and exchanged views on a wide spectrum of issues. --read on--
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Syndicate harmony
Press Syndicate elections took place in a festive mood, ending in a sweeping victory for Ibrahim Nafie as syndicate chairman. For the 12 council members journalists made a liberal choice from across the political spectrum. After casting her vote, Shaden Shehab reports
Lawyers walkout in Wali vs Al-Shaab
On 14 August, the Cairo Criminal Court will hand down its verdict in the libel suit brought by Agriculture Minister Youssef Wali against Al-Shaab newspaper. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Second sight
Is the sanctity of a dead person's eye more valuable than the sight of the living blind? Fatemah Farag investigates
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A bitter battle raged across the Nile. At the Marriott in Zamalek, Israelis and Arabs expressed their determination to fight for peace and against the enemies of "reconciliation". At the Helnan Shepheard Hotel and the Nasserist Party headquarters downtown, Egyptian intellectuals expressed their resolve to struggle for liberation and defeat the advocates of "normalisation". The government distanced itself from the whole affair. But at both the "conference for peace" and the "rallies against surrender", Dina Ezzat and Amira Howeidy could find little but rhetoric
For reconciliation
Against normalisation
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The right to remain silent
A British court has ruled in favour of three London-based Islamists and questioned the legality of the anti-terrorism act, in force since last year. Jailan Halawi writes
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Egypt's first mosque to be restored
Renovating the first mosque to be built in Egypt and Africa is about to take place. Nevine El-Aref reports
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Digging carefully
A new plan has been approved to complete the construction of an Alexandria bridge without damaging the antiquities below it
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It wasn't Venice
Torrents of water turned a major section of Tahrir Square into a muddy lake when a water-pipe broke. Amid pails and more heavy-duty equipment, Fatemah Farag inspected the damage
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