Al-Ahram Weekly

Ending the game of citizenship
The Palestinian minority massively abstained from Israel's prime ministerial election on Tuesday. But it would be wrong to see the boycott simply as a criticism of Ehud Barak. Graham Usher writes from Haifa and the Galilee.

The bulldozer baron
Ariel Sharon, writes Michael Jansen, is and always has been, in the words of Shakespeare, a "bold bad man"

The immoral majority
Where is the peace camp when you need it? Why, opposing the Palestinian right of return and suggesting ethnic cleansing policies, writes Johnathan Cook

'Israel's last bullet'
Palestinians have reacted to the election of Likud leader Ariel Sharon as Israel's new prime minister with a combination of apprehension and defiance. Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

A bridge too far
Ilan Pappe, a leading Israeli historian and activist, spoke to Graham Usher in Haifa about the failure of the "left" to go the extra mile towards peace by refusing to recognise the right of return for millions of Palestinian refugees

Unanswered questions
The special Scottish court in the Netherlands issued its ruling in the Lockerbie case last week, condemning one suspect and acquitting the other. Now, as Judit Neurink discovered in Camp Zeist, everyone is seeking damages

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