Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
28 Oct. - 3 Nov. 1999
Issue No. 453
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Critical misjudgements
Ibrahim Nafie finds the flurry of criticism, targeting the cabinet reshuffle and the conduct of Bright Star military exercises, curiously misplaced
By birth or by choice?
Until Oslo, Palestine was far more than a country erased from the map, writes Edward Said. Its people's struggle for freedom offered inspiration to liberationist movements everywhere. Even today, to choose one's identity is to make history -- and to refuse the version written by others
Out of control?
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed talks of the growing threat represented by the use of nuclear energy, both military and civilian, and asks: is the situation getting out of control?
Defusing an explosive peace
Relations between Egypt and the US have usually been smooth sailing. Ahmed Abdel-Halim examines the rocky patches

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Silence as usual
For several reasons, reactions to the massacres and brutalities committed by the Russians in Chechnya have been restricted to verbal condemnation. --read on--

Editorial
Unnecessary advances

Naguib Mahfouz
An ideal system
It has been said that the new cabinet was formed to speed up the privatisation process. --read on--

Soapbox
Cleaning up on campus

Awatef Abdel-Rahman


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