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Ibrahim Nafie:
Unstopping the bottle-neck

Ibrahim El-Essawi:
From reform to recession

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
The UN Impasse (1)

Khaireya Khairy:
Palpably a star

Wael Farouk:
Mountain madness
Profile by
David Blake

Archive update:
The 1995 parliamentary elections

20th century Special issue

The complete archive of the
Special pages commemorating
50 years of Arab dispossession
since the creation of the State of Israel

A still from Paramount's Rules of Engagement, left, a film that has sparked widespread protests for its racist stereotyping of Arabs as violent fanatics

Any way they want
The film Rules of Engagement has provoked a backlash against its portrayal of Arab Muslims as blood-thirsty terrorists, reports Thomas Gorguissian from Washington

Revitalising credit
Aziza Sami examines government action to deal with the growing recession in the domestic market

Stand up and be counted
The new Al-Qahira has hit the newsstands, but how does the newspaper make out? Fatemah Farag gauges the initial reaction

Portals here, there, everywhere
Portals, agreements and regional cooperation dominated Gitex Cairo. Amira Howeidy attended

Staking out the next round
There is quiet optimism in the wake of Yasser Arafat's meeting last week with President Clinton. But the optimism is confined solely to the leaders. Graham Usher writes from Jerusalem

Wielding 'the hammer of revolution'
Iran's political maelstrom is intensifying, with the press at the eye of the storm. Azadeh Moaveni follows the manoeuvring from Tehran

Israel won't play fair
The credibility of the regime for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons is put to the test

The demon within
Unacceptable historical injustice has turned farm killers into national heroes in Zimbabwe, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The third way

Monasticism and service in the community have traditionally fallen on opposite sides of the Coptic Church's walls, but a revived movement is proving otherwise. Mariz Tadros investigates a religious way of life that is gaining increasing popularity. Randa Shaath captures it on film

A syllabus for Sisyphus
As the academic year draws to an end, exams loom ahead and parents complain that young children are overloaded with difficult textbooks and hours of homework. Gihan Shahine sifts through kindergarten and elementary school curricula

On the frontiers
of the academy

In the great educational debate, the question of the past -- what people used to learn, and how -- is often forgotten. Amina Elbendary witnesses an organised recovery operation

April memories, April tunes
THE TWO close friends who collaborated on the phenomenally popular puppet theatre classic, Al-Laila Al-Kabira, are both icons, though the younger of the two approaches legendary status.
--read on--

Labour Day
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak is due to deliver today the annual Labour Day speech which is expected to tackle the latest developments on the domestic, regional and international fronts, presidency sources said. --read on--

Free press
STUDENTS at Tehran's technical university suspended classes for the day yesterday as peaceful protests against the banning of 13 pro-reform publications spread across the country. --read on--

The most splendid of all
The mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut has 40 years of restoration work to thank for its renewed glory. Nevine El-Aref visited the site

And now for the hard part
Egypt's unconvincing performance against Mauritius has the public wondering what will happen against much tougher opponents. Nashwa Abdel-Tawab reports on a qualified qualifier

		Al-Ahram Weekly 27 April - 3 May 2000 Issue No. 479
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875