Trade and diplomacy
Ibrahim Nafie assesses the results of President Mubarak's recent trip to Russia, Romania and Germany

Thinking about Israel
Israel's official callousness to the Palestinians has been internalised, not only by extreme American Zionists, ... Ariel Sharon, and the Israeli political establishment, but also by the Palestinian leadership, writes Edward Said

Iran on the ascendancy
Back from the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he attended the UNESCO conference on the Dialogue Among Civilisations last week, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed discusses some of the key issues raised by the meeting, including a growing Iranian presence in international cultural events

Soapbox:
The fiercest to date
By Wahid Abdel-Meguid

Close up:
By Salama Ahmed Salama
No women, no Copts

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Killing debate

This week: Shimon Peres

Naguib Mahfouz
An unexpected familiarity

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