From the archives:
The full coverage of the 1995 elections
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POPES AND MINISTERS: The restoration of Old Cairo's fourth century Hanging Church has taken on Byzantine twists with the disappearnce of a first century Roman fresco and claims and counter claims over the inadvertant plastering of a 1,500 year-old marble pulpit. --read on--
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Passing the parcel
Ehud Barak, all but down and out, is looking to the Americans, Europeans and Arabs to rescue him. But will they, asks Graham Usher in Jerusalem
A war of words
Juggling a commitment to regional security with Egyptian-US friendship is a bigger challenge than ever before, writes Dina Ezzat
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A businessman's blight
A prominent business tycoon's assets have been put under sequestration. What went wrong?
Counting on the courts
In the political as in the business sphere, the judiciary been making increasingly resonant waves. Are two of the three arms of government at logger-heads? Gamal Essam El-Din investigates
Destitute but determined
Disappointed, frustrated and angry, the EOHR has vowed to fight for the licence it never got, reports Amira Howeidy
Planning the communications revolution
A $1 billion masterplan for the development of Egypt's telecommunications infrastructure is in the making. Niveen Wahish reports
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No deal is a good deal
Arafat's steadfastness at Camp David was hailed as a victory, not only in occupied Palestine, but throughout the Arab world, reports Sherine Bahaa
Rehabilitating the south
The Lebanese government finally approved the deployment of UN troops along its border with Israel, with hopes that international aid would soon follow to help rebuild the south. Zeina Khodr reports from Beirut
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 Focus:
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait 10 years on
Hard to believe
No ruler deserves a final reckoning like Saddam Hussein; and none has been so adept at deferring it. Will he still be around 10 years from now? Hard to believe; but certainly no harder than the same forecast would have been a decade ago when he invaded Kuwait, writes David Hirst From Umm Qasr in southern Iraq
See also:
Remembering the occupation
Downloading death
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Intensive consultations
WINDING up his Arab tour, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stopped over in Alexandria yesterday for talks with President Hosni Mubarak which Foreign Minister Amr Moussa described as "very fruitful and useful," reports Nevine Khalil from the Mediterranean resort city.--read on--
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The road to Rome
Their dream, they believe, can only be fulfilled on the other side of the Mediterranean -- and they will go through hell and high water to get there. Amira Howeidy hears a story of failure
Protoplasmic instrumentals
David Blake enjoys a lute without the body
Egyptian sports shakes up
Fifty years of nostalgia has come to an end. Abeer Anwar tunes in to the changes
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