Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
19 - 25 August 1999
Issue No. 443
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Nationalists and Islamists
First Chechnya and now Daghestan. Islamist insurgents in the Caucasus Mountains could create another 'Afghanistan' for Russia, writes Abdel-Malek Khalil from Moscow
Time to clamp down on 'counter-terror'
The 1996 US immigration laws, the result of an overtly anti-Arab 'counter-terror' campaign, are being used to target Arabs and Muslims, wrties Lamis Andoni in Boston
China Falun fallacies?
Superstition or spirituality? The Chinese government's recent crackdown on the Falun Gong movement has shaken Chinese society. Mariz Tadros writes from Beijing
A week in the world
No business like show business
By Tarek Atia
The right thing to do?
President Clinton's poor relief goes corporate -- with disturbing prospects for the future, writes Dominic Coldwell
Banking for the poor
Although the Grameen Bank is being promoted as the new model for global poverty alleviation, does it profit the rich rather than the poor, asks Faiza Rady

 
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