From the archives:
The full coverage of the 1995 elections
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DEATH OF AN ANGEL: Abdel-Azim Abdel-Haq, a resident of a village near the West Bank town of Nablus, was driving home with his 18-month-old daughter, Sarah, and 21-year-old cousin Rima. He had taken the child, who had been suffering from fever, to a nearby hospital. Nearing his village, he heard the sounds of gunfire but could not identify where the shots were coming from. Abdel-Haq drove as fast as he could while shots continued to be fired in his direction. One bullet smashed his backdoor window.
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Sharon's calling card
Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem as mass revolts, sparked by Ariel Sharon's visit to the Haram Al-Sharif, spread from the occupied territories to Israel
For they shall inherit the earth
Out of the flames of Israel's war on a largely unarmed population, a new Palestinian intifada is rising -- and not just in the occupied territories. Khaled Amayreh witnesses the carnage and the resistance
'Why?'
The series of pictures showing the brutal murder of 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohamed Jamal Al-Dorri last Saturday shook the world with their depiction of the gruesome reality of violence in the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers ignored the pleas of Mohamed's father, Jamal, to stop shooting, while the terrified boy hid behind his father.
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Child murder sparks campus fury
 While President Mubarak condemned Israel, thousands of students protested in support of Palestinians on university campuses. Nevine Khalil and Fatemah Farag gauge the nation's reaction to Israeli brutality in Palestine
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Elections 2000
Islamist electoral fortunes have been taking a nose-dive since the successful -- "Islam is the Solution" -- campaign of 1987, in which an "Islamic Alliance" of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, the Labour and Liberal parties captured a staggering 78 parliamentary seats. In this week's instalment of Al-Ahram Weekly's survey of the forthcoming parliamentary elections' main contenders, Amira Howeidy finds the much weakened Brotherhood determined to hold on, while Khaled Dawoud looks at Labour's exit from parliamentary politics
Independents rule the poll
Who's running? Gamal Essam El-Din sums up the electoral scene
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Food, shelter, mobile
Cut throat competition between Mobinil and Click to expand their subscriber bases has led to accusations of hitting below the belt, reports Tarek Atia
The business of culture
Do a brokerage house and music production company make strange bedfellows? Gamal Essam El-Din investigates
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Iraq must pay
 Sanctions on Iraq are only the public face of a larger and more sinister campaign by the United Nations to set humanitarian concerns aside in its thirst for revenge. In the first instalment of a two-part article, Alain Gresh investigates a low-profile commission that levies a heavy tax
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Little steps, big goal
 Kuwait is shrugging them off, but the "humanitarian" planes to Baghdad are making a political difference. Dina Ezzat and Rasha Saad report
A thorn in the government's side?
A new television station is linking Iranians around the world. Tuning in from Tehran, Azadeh Moaveni finds out what her neigbours are so excited about
Towering inferno
The "Generation P" do battle with Putin's crew, while the babushkas are reduced to dependency on TV soap operas, writes Shohdy Naguib from Moscow
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After the storm
Fawzi Soliman explores post-war Lebanon through the eyes of two Locarno festival top-runners
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Porn to be wild
Tarek Atia gets "cultural" with first-time director Mohamed Amin's risky venture
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Victory rites
THIS morning President Hosni Mubarak will deliver a radio and television broadcast to the nation marking the anniversary of the 1973 6th of October War victory. Later in the day, Mubarak is presiding over talks with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak in Sharm Al-Sheikh. The meeting will be attended by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. --read on--
A Gulf first
THE UNITED Arab Emirates is scheduled to fly a chartered plane to Baghdad today, becoming the first Gulf Arab country to send an aircraft to Iraq in protest against decade-old UN sanctions. --read on--
Futile debate
THE FIRST televised debate between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W Bush which took place last Tuesday had been billed as potentially a defining moment in the US presidential campaign. As it turned out, little happened of real significance.
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Over with a spectacular bang
The Sydney Games bid farewell to the world in a closing ceremony bursting with the exhilaration of the land they call Oz
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