Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
7 - 13 October 1999
Issue No. 450
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

A better world, or a brave new world
We know the problems, and the solutions. Federico Mayor and Jerome Bindé expect nothing from the 21st century
A very Republican rebel
The US presidential race is on, and it might even be interesting, writes James Zoghby
Israel's new historians
The emergence of a new school of historians in Israel leads Mohamed Sid-Ahmed to ask how this significant event can be used to serve the cause of peace positively
China's successes, Russia's failures
Political regimes, like other structures, can grow decrepit and unstable in the absence of modernisation. Gamil Mattar reflects

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Like father, like son?
By raising the issue of political succession in the Arab world, Martin Indyk broke the silence that has long shrouded the question in this region. --read on--

Editorial
Social responsibility

Naguib Mahfouz
Science as power
Science is the gate through which we must pass into the 21st century; but I am not sure we accord it the importance it deserves. --read on--

Soapbox
Leading the way

Salah Eddin Hafez


This week:
Anwar El-Sadat

 

 

 
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