20th century
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER: The official opening last Saturday of a Roman villa in Alexandria generated great excitement, offering as it did a rare chance to picture life -- specifically, the lifestyle of a wealthy urban family -- in Egypt under Roman rule. The villa, probably built during Hadrian's reign, was restored between 1998 and '99. It was found during excavations in the Kom Al-Dikka area, which lies in the heart of modern Alexandria.
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'Beyond differences'
President Mubarak says Egypt will raise the issue of nuclear disarmament at Moscow's multilateral talks. Nevine Khalil reports
Avoiding slippery slopes
Globalisation, long championed by the World Economic Forum, returns to haunt its annual meeting which opens today in Davos
At the Davos Economic Summit the Middle East/ North Africa Region will figure prominently. Against a backdrop of rapid globalisation and political tensions arising from the Middle East conflict Egypt, along with other Arab countries, is working towards becoming a competitive market, as well as an effective regional player
Economy special page
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Pressing on for an Arab summit
President Mubarak has been involved in consultations with the chief executives of Syria, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority on regional peacemaking and the revival of Arab solidarity, writes Nevine Khalil
Born in sin
Does the publication in an Israeli newspaper of a massacre committed against Palestinians in 1948 signal a change in the way most Israeli Jews view the origins of their state? Yes and no, reports Graham Usher from Jerusalem
Weizman's chutzpah
The criminal investigation against Israel's President Ezer Weizman is less a probe against a man than against a political system and milieu
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Inside a dazzling discovery
 In this third of his occasional series, Zahi Hawass recounts the discovery of the mummies at Bahariya Oasis
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Lotfiya and the major
Telepathic twins, a well full of bats and a house of spirits: Fayza Hassan listens to the other story of the Gayer-Anderson Museum
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Not as in the hour
Snap snap: photos good, bad, indifferent and, Nigel Ryan discovers, everywhere
Bigger or better
Will this year's Cairo International Book Fair be an improvement on last's? Youssef Rakha remains unsure
Whole days spent among the trees
To the delight of Heliopolitans, and picnickers nationwide, a facelift is giving life to one of the city's best known parks. Gihan Shahine takes a stroll down Merryland lane
It's anybody's guess
The African Nations Cup is up for grabs as the continental championship kicked off
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