Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
26 Aug. - 1 Sep. 1999
Issue No. 444
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Tough talking
Yasser Arafat says negotiations with Israel are more difficult than armed resistance, reports Khaled Dawoud 		Senator on tour
President Hosni Mubarak met on Sunday with US Senator Arlen Specter, who is currently on a regional tour which includes Palestinian self-rule areas and Israel.
Serageldin What Egypt needs for
new millennium
Is Egypt prepared for the new knowledge-based global economy? World Bank Vice President Ismail Serageldin outlined new requisites at a seminar Gamal Nkrumah attended
Deadly legacy
Italy has agreed to help remove land-mines in the Western Desert but, as Amira Ibrahim reports, much more is required
journalists protestWhile journalists revived their battle against imprisonment for publication offences, the Supreme Press Council was evaluating their professional standard. Shaden Shehab reports

Pressing for legal change
The state of the profession

Poppy extermination Striking at the source
The war against narcotics in Sinai is continuing, with border guards raiding almost 2,000 plantations of hashish and poppy. Amira Ibrahim joined the raiders on their search- and-destroy mission
Feminists tread carefully
Women's rights activists have levelled accusations of bureaucracy against the Ministry of Social Affairs for opposing the establishment of a women's union. Mona El-Nahhas reports
Kadria Mohamed DaoudUndesirable foreigner
The recent mistreatment of an Egyptian young woman by US immigration officials has rubbed salt into the many wounds of Egyptians who have applied for, and even received, foreign entry visas. Fatemah Farag reports
Loan deputies, drug deputies, hooligan deputies; will the people's deputies please stand up. With one more MP indicted -- for "hooliganism" -- and a former chairman of the Assembly's Industry Committee receiving a ten-year prison sentence -- in a retrialAbdel-Wahab El-Habbak-- parliament's rough time keeps getting rougher. Gamal Essam El-Din keeps track

MPs pile up epithets
Ten years again

Bankers, pashas and builders
To the delight of businessmen and pedestrians alike, a major project to revamp the Cairo Stock Exchange area, once the pride of the downtown district, is nearing completion. Gihan Shahine catches a glimpse of work in progress
Bridging the bridge's gaps
Last week's trial run of the new extension of the 6th of October Bridge resulted in traffic jams and a press frenzy. Tarek Atia reports on the lessons learned and what to expect when the bridge is officially opened early next month
  • Death on the roads
  • Royal relations on trial
  • The root of all evil
  • Water, water everywhere
  • Hot summer, cold sales
  • Life on Mars
  • Medical opinions

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