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14 - 20 December 2000
Issue No.512
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Facing facts
Whatever the fact-finding committee unearths in the occupied territories one thing is sure -- Netanyahu is back, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem

Barak takes the low road
Ehud Barak hoped his decision to resign as Israel's prime minister would pull the ground from under the feet of Binyamin Netanyahu. But he may have pulled the ground from under his own feet. Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem

Egypt:

New parliament launched
The newly-elected People's Assembly held its first procedural meeting yesterday, as the NDP prepared itself for five more years as the majority party, write Nevine Khalil and Gamal Essam El-Din

Al-Kosheh rioters released
For humanitarian reasons, a court in Sohag has ordered the release of 89 defendants on trial for murder and looting after they had spent almost a year behind bars. Jailan Halawi reports

Back from oblivion
As deputy editor of Rose Al-Youssef, Adel Hamouda has been credited with injecting new, if controversial, vigour into Egyptian journalism. His new publication, as Shaden Shehab reports, is selling like hot cakes

Opinion:
Barak in the corner
Ibrahim Nafie

No turning back
Mouin Rabbani

The Israeli Arabs
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

The alternatives is here
Hani Shukrallah


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Ramadan riddles
Injy El-Kashef abandons herself to fate

Economy:

Privatising utilities -- almost
Water and waste water services will soon be up for grabs. Niveen Wahish anticipates the flow

Tapping the global economy
What accounts for the sudden surge in interest in Libya's once closed economy? In Tripoli, Gamal Nkrumah finds out

From bad to worse
Following another slow week at the stock market, Sherine Abdel-Razek ponders whether things could get any worse

Region:

Not Israel's to give
There is much more than symbolism in the declaration of Palestinian statehood, writes John Whitbeck. The time is now

Trampled under Israel's foot
In a desperate effort to suppress the Palestinian uprising, now entering its 12th week, the Israeli occupation army has stepped up its extra-judicial executions of Intifada activists, Khaled Amayreh reports from the West Bank

Showdown in Sudan
The Sudanese government pressed ahead with presidential and parliamentary elections despite the boycott by opposition parties, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Dealing differently with Lebanon
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's decision to release Lebanese prisoners and detainees in Syria is regarded as a sure, albeit slow, advance in Lebanese-Syrian relations, writes Ranwa Yehia in Beirut

International:

In the end
The United States is now destined to have a presidency achieved by litigation and judicial fiat, writes Mohamed Hakki from Washington

The madness within
EU officials and European health authorities are scrambling to lay the blame for consumer panic over BSE anywhere but home as more instances of the disease crop up in unlikely places. What goes around comes around, writes Nyier Abdou

Britain's 'walk on by culture'
The brutal murder of a Nigerian boy in England raised serious questions about morality and common decency in contemporary British society, writes Ama Biney from London

USA elections

Special:

Mawlawi Shiekhs
Mystics and devotees, leaders and followers
There is more to Sufism than the mulid and the zikr. In the third instalment of her Ramadan series, Fayza Hassan traces attempts to regulate a very private spiritualism

Culture:

Naguib Mahfouz Two authors and a press
Youssef Rakha attends a Nobel laureate's 89th birthday

Ramadan in the city
Amina Elbendary shares her diary of this month of miracles and memories

Palestine Held hostage
Nur Elmessiri beholds familiar-wondrous creatures in Osama Silwadi's photographs of the current Intifada

Entertainment:

Ramadan TVEveryone's a critic
Tarek Atia scopes out the word on Ramadan television so far and chips in his two cents

This rose has thorns
A Ramadan soap opera breaks taboos every night while the audience sits glued to the screens, reports Amira Howeidy

An all-inclusive guide to goings on around Cairo

Living:

On the other end of the line
Stumped for a recipe, starved for football news, or desperate to know if that new shade of lipstick is winter's must-have or fall's has-been? Gihan Shahine finds help a phone call away

Travel:

Lost in time
SiwaWarm and steeped in tradition, the people of Siwa will go far to let you into their community. But Amira El-Noshokaty found that even an Egyptian visitor is an outsider looking in

Sports:

On par with the greats
Zamalek's African Cup win books a spot in the world club championship and a place among the continent's best clubs ever. Abeer Anwar reports 		Football

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