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		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 28 Dec. 2000 - 3 Jan. 2001 Issue No.514
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One of the most compelling images of this year was that captured by Talal Abu Rahma's lens of the shooting down by Israeli soldiers of 12-year-old Mohamed Al-Dorra. The image, for which Abu Rahma received the Palestine Award for Photojournalism, inspired numerous Arab poets to give it voice Mohamed By Mahmoud Darwish For every jet-setter, a neo-Nazi thug Last month the Second International Conference for Literary Criticism, organised by the Egyptian Society for Literary Criticism, was held in Cairo. Among the international luminaries it hosted was Terry Eagleton who delivered a paper, "Culture versus cultures," dealing with globalisation and particularism	Straddling the vantage point By Nigel Ryan Plain talk By Mursi Saad El-Din
	Nothing like heavenly bodies David Blake meets the Christmas high spirit
In shining armour By George Bahgory

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