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 Close-up on peace
Cairo hosted dignitaries attending the G-15 summit this week and, as always, also had time for regional peace-making, writes Nevine Khalil
Riding the waves
It was a full day for President Hosni Mubarak on 17 June when he presided over Media Day festivities, reports Nevine Khalil
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Scramble over the NDP ticket
The contest over inclusion on the NDP ticket in November's parliamentary elections promises to be even fiercer this time round than it did in the 1995 poll, reveals Gamal Essam El-Din
Celebrating the word
INAUGURATING the Reading for All festival's 10th year, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak on Sunday visited the Khaled Ibn Al-Walid Library in Imbaba and placed the cornerstone for the new Maadi General Library.
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Crash scenarios continue to clash
The investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 may be winding down. But, as Thomas Gorguissian writes from Washington, no conclusive answers to the mystery appear in sight
A statement released by Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the spiritual leader of the militant Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya, from his US prison cell, sent ripples of apprehension thudding against Egyptian shores. Is the Gama'a about to embark on a new wave of violence? Al-Ahram Weekly finds out that while the group's leaders inside the country continue to revere the ailing old man, his fatwas have lost much of their former weight
Prison mail
Imprisoned leaders of the militant Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya inside Egypt insist that they are not about to revise their three-year unilateral cease-fire. Jailan Halawi reports
Who listens to the sheikh?
How seriously should Omar Abdel-Rahman's statement be taken? Amira Howeidy sounds out expert opinion
A snag in the national fabric
An Egyptian sociologist is lambasted -- yet again -- for lumping Copts with other regional minority groups in an annual conference. Omayma Abdel-Latif talks to both sides
Taking time off the intnse G-15 Summit meetings, the Azhar-educated Indonesian President Abdel-Rahman Wahid visited Cairo's most famous Muslim shrine, the Al-Hussein mosque, on Tuesday
photo: Abdel-Wahab El-Seheiti
 A new chart for the Bar?
As the countdown for Bar Association elections continues, several lawyers blasted an undeclared alliance between the government candidate for chairman and the Muslim Brotherhood. Mona El-Nahhas reports
Censure and denial
The section on Egypt in Amnesty International's annual report, while noting some positive developments, continued to charge gross human rights violations. The government continued to deny them. Amira Howeidy reports
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