Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
9 - 15 March 2000
Issue No. 472
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Messages from Egypt
Ibrahim Nafie examines the messages that President Mubarak will be taking to the US
The importance of being democratic
Social harmony and political stability, not anarchy, are the corollaries of democratisation. Mustafa El-Fiqi debunks some common misperceptions
Imaging tomorrow (3):
Globalisation and specificity

Despite the worldwide drive towards globalisation, the Middle East remains marked by many traits inherited from the former bipolar world order. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed discusses the phenomenon
People's priorities, policy's preference
Foreign policy and public opinion maintain an often uneasy but always powerful relation. Gamil Mattar writes
Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Respectable reform
Instead of consuming their energy in petty squabbles and irrelevant matters, members of the majority party in the People's Assembly should be focusing on real problems. --read on--
Editorial
Safe, not sorry
The Arabs were cautious in welcoming the Israeli cabinet's decision this week to pull its troops out of south Lebanon in July, after 22 years of occupation. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
Profits for the people
I have noticed that Egypt's role is acquiring increased importance on the international scene. --read on--

Soapbox
The plunder of history

Is Israel a rich country in a sea of poverty, as Shimon Peres claims? We must define what we mean by wealth before attempting to answer the question. --read on-- Mohamed Sobeih

 

 

 
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