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1 - 7 February 2001
Issue No.519
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From bad to worse
Enormous effort is being exerted to boost Ehud Barak's electoral chances, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem, but to no effect

A cancerous web of deception
Depleted uranium, used extensively in both the Gulf war and the conflict in the Balkans, has been revealed to be a cause of cancer. Ashraf El-Bayoumi traces the history of a cover-up

OPEN PAGEOpinion
Edward Said:
Too much work 		Edward Said
Ibrahim Nafie
Winning away from home 		Ibrahim Nafie
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
Bush and Iraq 		Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Hani Shukrallah:
Freedom to oppress 		Hani Shukrallah
Open letter to Prime Minister Atef Ebeid

Fouad Serageddin's villa The last pasha's den
Fayza Hassan watches as a witness to the major events of Egypt's 20th-century political history bids its final occupant farewell

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Opposites attract
Profile by Samia Abdennour
Pot Pourri
Pot Pourri
Tea at the Pension Viennoise
By Fayza Hassan Restaurant review
After hours
Injy El-Kashef settles for second best

OPEN PAGEEgypt

Still no answers
While families of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 990 crash are receiving insurance money, the airliner, as Amira Ibrahim reports, is not accepting responsibility for the tragedy

Prison limelight
Human rights organisations and Egyptian literati are rallying around a little-known writer branded an apostate. Jailan Halawi sounds out cries of book-banning and blasphemy

Amer and NasserBy his own hand?
The production of a controversial film delving into the relationship between the late President Gamal Abdel-Nasser and his top aide, Abdel-Hakim Amer, is facing problems. Mona El-Nahhas investigates

OPEN PAGEEconomy

The invisible dollar
Buyers seeking to take advantage of the reduced dollar rate found little to buy, reports Sherine Abdel-Razek

EU partnership holds mixed blessings
Exporters are applauding an agreement that will increase their access to European markets, but producers catering to the local market remain wary of increased competition

Setting competition free
In an exclusive interview Economy Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali unveils to Gamal Essam El-Din the main articles of the proposed anti-trust draft law

OPEN PAGERegion

Daylight at night -- remembering Sharon
As Ariel Sharon stands poised to be the new Israeli prime minister, Graham Usher -- in Shatila and Jerusalem -- looks at how Israeli politicians and Palestinian refugees at once forget and remember his past

IraqInnocent victims of a dirty war
Ten years after the Gulf War, Karim El-Gohari talks to doctors in the Basra region of southern Iraq about the increase in cases of deformed babies and childhood cancer, blamed on the use of depleted uranium by US and British troops

Risky Judgment
Iran sentences intelligence agents to death for murdering dissidents. But as Azadeh Moaveni, in Tehran, reports, both reformists and the victims' families hint at a cover-up

Curtain falls on Lockerbie
IN A SURPRISE ruling the special Scottish court set up in The Netherlands to try two Libyans suspected of bombing a Pan Am airliner 12 years ago over Lockerbie, Scotland --read on--

OPEN PAGEInternational

Neo-liberal fallacies
Democracy and the market do not make good bedfellows, argues Samir Amin

Dakar vs Davos
Africa's scholars and activists are opting for the Dakar Manifesto, in opposition to their leaders, who instead are pinning their hopes on Davos, writes Gamal Nkrumah

A Utopian vision
Activists railed against globalisation in Davos while theoreticians debated an alternative platform in Porto Alegre, writes Faiza Rady

OPEN PAGECulture

The 33rd Cairo International Book Fair The 33rd Cairo International Book Fair:

Prophets and fugitives
Youssef Rakha encounters the Intifada at the Cairo Book Fair

'Ordinary people'
An unruffled minister of culture met with little opposition during his appearance at the book fair, writes Omayma Abdel-Latif

The e-word on everybody's lips
Amira Howeidy discovers what the "e" is all about

An all-inclusive guide to goings on around Cairo

OPEN PAGEInterview

The religious face of secularism
Yasar Nuri OzturkThe immensely popular "public theologian" Yasar Nuri Ozturk is taking Turkey by storm. Margot Badran met him in Istanbul to find out what is going on

OPEN PAGEFeatures

Preserve plunder
Wadi DiglaA natural protectorate is no place for a garbage dump. So why are conservationists finding it so hard to keep one desert nature preserve garbage-free? Sherine Nasr sifts through a tangle of contradictory policies and environmental decrees

OPEN PAGESports

Hanging in the balance
It's been smooth sailing thus far for Egypt in the world handball championship, but the sea is about to get choppy, writes Inas Mazhar

OPEN PAGETravel

Time is money
As Cairo increasingly sells itself as an international business hub, hotels scramble to bring their services up to snuff. Rehab Saad prowls the halls of the business elite

OPEN PAGELiving

City trafficA flying leap
Are bridges, tunnels and highway extensions the answer to Cairo's endemic traffic ills? Gihan Shahine wonders

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