Addressing the issues
Ibrahim Nafie extrapolates the future course of economic policy from the prime minister's policy statement to the People's Assembly

Does peace have a future?
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed questions whether the new Bush administration can revive the peace process

The artist vs the commissar
Ferial Ghazoul sees in the banning of three books no less than the end of freedom

Soapbox:
Super-modernisation
By Emad Abu Ghazi

Close up:
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Bush-whacked no longer

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
The beginning at the end

This week: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Naguib Mahfouz
Censorship on parole