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THE NEW year is only a few days away, and on 30 December you will not find the regular Al-Ahram Weekly, packed with news and views, at your local newsstand. Instead, we have planned a commemorative issue to see the twentieth century off with a bang.
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Sudan plays wait and see
As the power struggle continues in Sudan, several African neighbours, led by Egypt, as well as Gulf states are pledging support for President Al-Bashir
A different kind of stable
New technology is being used not only to search for oil and minerals, but also for archeological remains. Nevine El-Aref recounts how Ramses II's capital was discovered in the Nile Delta
A threat greater than Y2K?
Law enforcers are ringing alarm bells about potential terrorist targets in the US and abroad as America prepares to celebrate the new millennium with a big bang, reports Thomas Gorguissian from New York
Jingoism wins the day
Wars win votes, in Chechnya for Yeltsin and Putin this week, just as they did in the Falklands for Mrs Thatcher nearly 18 years ago. Abdel-Malek Khalil writes from Moscow
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Searching for employment abroad is no longer the pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow, for workers or the government. Fatemah
Farag examines what has become of the "Gulf dream" and finds
out that facts and figures regarding the labour market remain
scarce
Wish
you were here
No
massaging the figures
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Prepping the plateau
When the lights go up on the eve of 31 December, the eyes of the world will turn on Giza; are we ready? Nevine El-Aref follows up the last-minute preparations
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It often seems as though civil society has been left out of the political equation in which the state attempts to reassert its hegemony as the Islamists make their bid for a piece of the pie. Is there no room to manoeuvre between the two poles? Omayma Abdel-Latif harvests views from across the political spectrum
'Playing by the rules'
'No partners in power'
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Seen is not heard
The second part in a series of Ramadan reflections on the
28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, from Ibn Manzour's Lisan
Al-Arab
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Peace summit
ISRAELI Prime Minister Ehud Barak held a late-night three-hour meeting in Ramallah on Tuesday with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to discuss the draft peace framework to be presented in mid-February.
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World warning
THE US Government has issued a new worldwide warning that Americans may be the target of New Year terrorist attacks extending up to mid-January. --read on--
Apology sought
LIBYAN Leader Muammar Gaddafi said he intends to seek an apology and compensation from the US if the two Libyan suspects on trial for the 1988 bombing of a Pan-Am passenger plane over Lockerbie are found innocent. --read on--
Here
comes the hero
Every
Ramadan, historical dramas are a great TV favourite -- and who
is a more appropriate digestive than Salaheddin? Amina Elbendary
samples the reconstruction of a legend for our times
On with the motley
Toppled apple carts, broken doors and crucifixions where you would least expect them. Nigel Ryan examines what art is on offer
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