Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
4 - 10 May 2000
Issue No. 480
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Issues navigation Current Issue Previous Issue Back Issues

Counting the credit
Ibrahim Nafie examines responses to the liquidity problems besetting economic growth
Divided it will stand Reforming Al-Azhar, and giving its rector greater autonomy, could counter extremism effectively, argues Mustafa El-Fiqi
The UN Impasse (2)
How to modernise the UN? Mohamed Sid-Ahmed proposes an alternative veto system in the world organisation
Negotiating a necessary peace
Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon is a calculated risk, not a permanent solution, writes Abdel-Azim Hammad
Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
The learning returns

The participants at a meeting in Sharqa supported by UNESCO and the Union of Arab Universities -- eminent Arab scientists drawn from the most prestigious universities and research centres in Europe and the United States -- have discovered that the Arabs are subordinated to and dependent on the West in the field of science. --read on--
Editorial
Better late

Egypt's five-year effort to declare the Middle East region a nuclear-free zone, and to open up Israel's nuclear facilities to international inspection, may be moving forward. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
Israel must go
Any Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab land is a good thing in and of itself --read on--



This week:
Khatami

Soapbox
By Amina Shafiq
The crucial 50 per cent
Different views have been expressed regarding the specific quota of seats reserved by the Constitution for workers and peasants on all elected councils (Municipal Councils, --read on--

 
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