Information campaigns
By Fayza Hassan
Humiliating pleasures
Injy El-Kashef discovers the rewards of masochism
From the archives:
The full coverage of the 1995 elections
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 States of emergency
At the Arab summit in Cairo the leaders awaited a "responsible response" from the Israeli government. They didn't get one. Graham Usher reports from Cairo and East Jerusalem
Solidarity days
Dissappointment at the decisions of the Arab summit and anger at the news of continued Israeli brutality in Palestine dominated popular sentiment. Fatemah Farag reports
Tempered anger at the summit
Arab leaders, meeting in Cairo this week, were obliged to weigh considerations of political realism against a level of popular Arab anger against Israel, unprecedented since the 'guns fell silent' after the October war in 1973. Khaled Dawoud reports
Producing the
body (count)
Neither fathers protecting their children nor farmers harvesting their olive crop were safe from the deliberate wrath of Israeli soldiers -- or civilians -- as they continued to kill Palestinians for the fourth week in a row. Khaled Amayreh reports from occupied Jerusalem
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Tougher times for the NDP
Although the ruling party is assured of eventual victory, it has lost a significant number of seats in the first stage of parliamentary elections. Gamal Essam El-Din evaluates the results
Election surprises defy pundits
Unlike last Tuesday's run-off elections, which witnessed sporadic violence, the first round went smoothly. Amira Howeidy explains who won and lost
Second act, same drama
The first stage of parliamentary elections proved to be an uphill battle for the ruling NDP. The second stage promises more of the same, predicts Gamal Essam El-Din
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Enhancing partnership
On the eve of the German Chancellor's visit to Cairo, Aziza Sami, in Berlin, looks at his country's expanding ties with Egypt
The sun also rises
As Europe warms up to Nobel laureate and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine policy", Gamal Nkrumah looks back to cloudier days
From Seattle to Seoul
Foreign leaders sang a hymn to globalisation in Seoul, but the protest movement begged to differ, writes Faiza Rady
A piece of the pie
Millions of people go hungry every day as the world produces enough food to feed everybody. Fatemah Farag looks into the paradox
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 The earth speaks Arabic
Amina Elbendary attends an evening of poetry in support of the Intifada at the National Theatre
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Happy trails
You've toured the monastery and planted your feet at the so-called mount of the law. But Mount Moses is not the only adventure in the sprawling area designated as the Saint Catherine Protectorate. In the first of an occasional series, Ragi Halim discovers the trails of Saint Catherine's wadis
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 Veiled resentment
A student has been dismissed from a French school in Alexandria for wearing a headscarf. The act violates Egyptian and French laws as well as human rights but, as Gihan Shahine discovers, the authorities seem reluctant to intervene |
Bursts of passion
Tarek Atia takes a look at the latest, and largest, attempt to put anger into song
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Special pages commemorating
50 years of Arab dispossession
since the creation of the
State of Israel
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Strong ties
PRESIDENT Hosni Mubarak affirmed the importance of strong ties between Egypt and Libya in a message to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who withdrew his delegation from the Arab summit. --read on--
Schroeder tour
GERMAN Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder is due to visit Cairo on 28 October in the first leg of a regional tour which will also take him to Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel and the Palestinian territories.--read on--
Border march
JORDANIAN Security forces fired tear-gas and deployed armoured vehicles to drive back more than 30,000 anti-Israel protesters who had driven from all over the country to the border town of South Shouneh --read on--
Medals, at last
Disadvantaged athletes are doing what their Olympic Games brethren couldn't. Abeer Anwar reports from Sydney on a refreshing change
Trying to buy a championship
Watching football in Egypt can be as exciting as watching grass grow. So dominant has Ahli been during the seven years it has reigned supreme in league competition. But after shelling out millions of pounds during the summer for the services of several high-calibre players, Zamalek appears ready to step into Ahli's unilateral world
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