In the face of recklessness
Ibrahim Nafie analyses the strategies necessary to restrain an Israeli government intent on escalating regional tensions

The water refugees
Humanity is threatened with a new scourge: water scarcity. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that this could become a key element in future relations between Arabs and Israelis

The vocabulary of revenge
What, precisely, does retaliation mean? Nigel Parry comments

Soapbox:
The brutal truth
By Abdel-Qader Yassin

Close up:
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Moral tribulations

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Can't have it both ways

This week: Jiang Zemin

Naguib Mahfouz
Childish histrionics

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