The end of Oslo
Not even Yasser Arafat can accept anything less than a peace between true equals, writes Edward Said
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Why, finally, a summit is possible
After a full decade during which Arab leaders were unable to come together in a summit meeting, they have now agreed to meet in Cairo later this month. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed explains their change of heart
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Stuck in the middle
Why is an Arab summit an event quite unlike any other? Gamil Mattar examines a unique phenomenon
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An ethical transformation
Palestinians are human beings too, writes John Whitbeck -- so why do Israel and the US persist in denying them their humanity?
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Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Await not the summit
The competition now taking place between two possible summit meetings is the key to the current crisis in the Middle East.
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Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Something to count on
Resistance to oppression is not a strategy, nor is it an ideological or cultural product, though it can only be expressed in (always constraining) ideological and cultural terms; it is an assertion of people's fundamental humanity.
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Editorial
Under siege
Following her talks
with President Hosni Mubarak in Sharm Al-Sheikh a week ago, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said that the situation in the region was "volatile and tragic.
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Soapbox
Integrity by degrees
By Magdi Mehanna
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