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29 March - 4 April 2001
Issue No.527
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In the age of CNN and the world wide web, what's a government owned news agency to do? Nevine Khalil tried to find out

At MENA premisesThe times and MENA
Once the premier source of regional news, the Middle East News Agency is struggling to meet the demands of the information revolution. Al-Ahram Weekly takes a walk through MENA corridors old and new 		The bottom line
Mahfouz El-Ansari, a hard-nosed journalist who launched his career at the Middle East News Agency (MENA) in 1958, returned 40 years later to fill the top job. He tells Al-Ahram Weekly of his plans to salvage Egypt's sole news agency

Yours, sincerely
Pierre Sioufi, proud owner of an extensive collection of rare postcards, wonders why he is compelled to accumulate bits of cardboard

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