Al-Ahram Weekly

Reshaping the UN
Ibrahim Nafie contemplates some necessary modifications to the UN charter

No peace with it, no peace without
Tahseen Bashir ponders the Jerusalem conundrum

The new arms race
What if North Korea gave up its missile programme? Would the United States give up its $100 billion National Missile Defence System, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Courting constitutionality
Legal provisions alone cannot ensure clean elections, writes Nur Farahat

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Back to Binyamin?
President Clinton's brief visit to Cairo, and his rushed meeting with President Mubarak, may add a special importance to the intensive efforts undertaken over the past few weeks to save the peace process. --read on--

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
All roads lead to the lawn
Bill Clinton, it now seems likely, will have his final signing ceremony after all. --read on--

Editorial
And the clock ticks on
President Hosni Mubarak's meeting with Bill Clinton in Cairo on Tuesday comes at a critical turning point in the Middle East peace process, --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz
The Wafd and revolution
I expect that in the coming phase of Wafd history, which begins with the party's elections to nominate a new president, --read on--

This week:
Diana

Soapbox
Timed to go off
By Mohamed Sobeih

		Al-Ahram Weekly 31 August - 6 September 2000 Issue No. 497
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875