Partners in development
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak said in a speech to Egyptian university students in Alexandria yesterday that both state and civil society institutions, including political parties, trade unions and non-governmental organisations, were responsible for achieving development in Egypt. --read on--
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Still counting the dead
Some 200,000 survivors of Turkey's killer earthquake are camping out in vacant lots, drenched in heavy rain for the third day running
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Waiting for America
Palestinian negotiators are waiting for Madeleine Albright's September visit to the region to break the deadlock in the Oslo process. They might just as well be waiting for Godot, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem
Tough talking
Yasser Arafat says negotiations with Israel are more difficult than armed resistance, reports Khaled Dawoud
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 While 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
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 retrial -- parliament's rough time keeps getting rougher. Gamal Essam El-Din keeps track
MPs pile up epithets
Ten years again
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
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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
'Enslaved by a giant'
Recent efforts to combat drug abuse in Egypt have not been entirely successful. Should better strategies be enforced? Gihan Shahine listens to addicts and experts
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Time for reflection
Nehad Selaiha has been busy ferreting out information about the 11th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre which opens next Wednesday
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