Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
2 - 8 March 2000
Issue No. 471
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Continental cooperation
Benefits all around: Ibrahim Nafie sees bright prospects for Egypt's role in COMESA
The gap grows wider
Torture is torture, whatever its colour, writes Edward Said. And above all, injustice is injustice and will be perceived as such
Imaging tomorrow (2):
Nukes are here to stay

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed probes the future of weapons of mass destruction, which he does not believe will disappear in any foreseeable future
Creating fictions of rivalry
President Mubarak's visit to Lebanon sent only one message, writes Abdel-Azim Hammad -- one of clear support for Arab solidarity
Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Planning ahead
In a few months, Egypt will be holding general elections to the People's Assembly, the first of the millennium. --read on--
Editorial
The importance
of democracy

Naguib Mahfouz
United crimson
The number of Catholics in this country is very small compared to the number of Orthodox Copts, but the visit of Pope John Paul II was not intended solely for the benefit of his Egyptian flock. --read on--

Soapbox
Brown man's burden

Salah Issa


This week:
Lionel Jospin

 

 

 
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