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Hizbullah's rising star
An unprecedented meeting between Hizbullah's leader and Lebanon's president confirmed the victorious resistance group's growing influence. Ranwa Yehia reports from Beirut
Seaweed fever
These are hard times for books in the Arab world. No sooner had the furor over the novel, A Banquet for Seaweed, seemed to die down in Egypt than similar clamour erupted in both Jordan, over a collection of poems, and Yemen, over a novel.
Lola Keilani, in Amman, and Nasser Arrabyee, in Sana'a, report on the sequels
The phantom city
Last week, President Clinton delayed the move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem due to the "sensitive" stage of the peace process. But he also has the sensitivities of some US citizens to worry about. Graham Usher writes from Jerusalem
A reception fit for a king
The US would do well to translate the warmth of its reception for Morocco's King Mohamed VI into tangible support, writes James Zogby from Washington
The reformist within
As Iranian reformists wage their parliamentary battle in the name of the people, Azadeh Moaveni examines the depth of the movement's popular roots
Previously known as rogue
Last week the US State Department decided to drop the "rogue states" tag from countries it accuses of supporting terrorism. In Washington Thomas Gorguissian writes that little change in US-dealings with these states is expected
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