Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
17 - 23 February 2000
Issue No. 469
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

A rotten state of affairs
Hopes have been dashed and promises broken -- yet again. Gamil Mattar finds a spanner in the works
Nazism resurrected
The inclusion of a neo-Nazi party in Austria's new coalition government has been met with outrage by the EU and much of the rest of the world. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed comments
Life after El-Zawahri
Al-Jihad stands at a crossroads today. Diaa Rashwan examines the implications of recent puzzling rumours
Harmony in the tower of Babel
As voices of dissent grow louder in Iran, Asef Bayat sees salvation in pluralistic discourse
Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Liar, liar
As negotiations on the Syrian track froze, talks with the Palestinians stopped, and Is-ael braced itself to spark the conflict on the Lebanese bor-er anew, threatening to set Lebanon ablaze in retaliation for the heroic self-defence mounted by Hizbullah, all il-usions about Barak dis-olved. --read on--
Editorial
A fruitless yield

Naguib Mahfouz
Reasons for trouble
I am very worried about developments in the Arab-Israeli settle-ent process: the re-ent attacks on Leb-non are entirely unjustified. All they will do is complicate matters further. --read on--

Soapbox
Original sin

Mohamed
El-Sayed Said


This week:
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah

 

 

 
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