Ibrahim Nafie:
Democratic milestones

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
An electoral season

Mohamed El-Sayed Said:
But where is politics?

Hani Shukrallah:
Tribes on the move

Hussein Fahmi:
Blue-eyed boy

Palestine:
Clinton's unlikely bid
Yasser Arafat goes to Washington aware that one page is closed, another about to open. Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem

Whither Yasser Arafat?
Yasser Arafat neither started the uprising nor has he tried to stop it. But what does he want from it? Graham Usher reports from Ramallah

Hebron under siege
For the fifth consecutive week, a hermetic curfew is being imposed on more than 35,000 Palestinian civilians living in Hebron's old town

Bad timing for taboo battering?
The taboo on discussion of the Syrian military presence in Lebanon was broken with the opening of the new Lebanese parliament. From Beirut Dalal Saoud reports on the debate

US Election 2000:
A voice, at last
This presidential race will go down in history as the turning point for Arab and Muslim communities in American politics, writes Mohamed Hakki from Washington

Who is the most Zionist of all?
The religiously-charged New York Senate race has proved a microcosm of a larger political trend, writes Hoda Tawfiq from New York

Big money, big votes
After the most expensive elections in US history, Americans were left with little more imperviousness to relentless propaganda, reports Thomas Gorguissian from Washington

Blackening America's image
African Americans still yearn for a say in their country's political future, even though no presidential hopeful will season his ticket with a black running mate, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Crucial days
Too close

Contradictions of COMESA
The creation of a COMESA free trade area might not be the panacea for Africa's economic ills, writes Gamal Nkrumah