Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
The peace virus
A little like the infamous I Love You virus, the Israeli peace virus randomly destroys programmes on the various tracks of the Middle East peace settlement. Sending messages headed "Working for peace," the Israelis wait until they are given access by users expecting a message of genuine peace; then the virus attacks, and all is reduced to ruins.
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Editorial
One of the photographs of which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is most proud is of himself in army uniform, standing at the door of an airplane and raising a gun in the air, smiling after succeeding in freeing Israeli hostages from Palestinian hijackers in the 1970s.
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Naguib Mahfouz
Lessons from dreams
These days, I write very short stories, which are published for the most part in Nisf El-Dunia magazine.
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Soapbox
By Abdel-Qader Yassin
Remembering the "Catastrophe"
The absence of democracy in Arab countries is the cause for the series of Arab defeats since the loss of Palestine in 1948.
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