Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
12 - 18 August 1999
Issue No. 442
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

The test of Wye
Cairo makes an intensive effort to push the peace process forward, even as Washington, which brokered the Palestinian-Israeli Wye River accord, washes its hands of the differences over the accord's implementation
Joining efforts on Sudan
Egypt and Libya are concerting efforts to help Sudan resolve its internal problems. Dina Ezzat writes

With one session to go before new parliamentary elections, the current House is having a rough time, even while in recess. The question on the street: "has parliament become a site of wheeling and dealing rather than governance?" has MPs in an uproar. Meanwhile, as Gamal Essam El-Din reports, the tough judge is getting tougher and, in not-so-secret meetings, MPs are railing against judicial authorities

More MPs behind bars
Judge gets tougher

The bridge will open -- soon enough
OctoberCairo will have to wait just a little longer for the opening of its long-awaited traffic saviour, the 6th of October Bridge extension. Tarek Atia finds out why that might actually be a good thing
Drug ban

Street business

What a waste

In his own back yard

Deadly soccer


 

 
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