Al-Ahram Weekly

Europe and the US pile up the pressure on the Lebanese prime minister to rein in Hizbullah. He may like to, but can he? Zeina Abu Rizk, in Beirut, writes

Sharon reverts to his Beirut tactics
Israel kept up its tight siege of Palestinian areas and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian activists, Khaled Amayreh reports from the occupied West Bank

Bouteflika's woes
Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika adopted a conciliatory tone to end bloody clashes in the Berber region. Nasr El-Kaffas writes from Algiers

Beyond rhetoric?
Iran throws its doors open to the Intifada summit. Azadeh Moaveni observes the guests vying for the limelight in Tehran

'Here I shall die'
A besieged yet optimistic Arafat, dreaming of living and dying in Jerusalem, meets David Hirst in Ramallah

The skeleton in Israel's closet
Israeli police mowed down 13 Palestinian citizens of the "Jewish state" early last October. A lot of dirty linen is emerging from the inquiry, writes Jonathan Cook

Further hunger, no reform
The death toll climbs in Turkey's prisons while economic and political reforms remain without a champion, Gareth Jenkins writes from Istanbul

Hijackers clear the air
The return of a hijacked Ethiopian plane to Addis Ababa from Khartoum opens a promising new chapter in relations between the two neighbours, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Berber fallout
Iran poll

		Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 3 - 9 May 2001 Issue No.532
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Hariri squeezed both ways Europe and the US pile up the pressure on the Lebanese prime minister to rein in Hizbullah. He may like to, but can he? Zeina Abu Rizk, in Beirut, writes	Sharon reverts to his Beirut tactics Israel kept up its tight siege of Palestinian areas and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian activists, Khaled Amayreh reports from the occupied West Bank
Bouteflika's woes Algerian President Abdel-Aziz Bouteflika adopted a conciliatory tone to end bloody clashes in the Berber region. Nasr El-Kaffas writes from Algiers	Beyond rhetoric? Iran throws its doors open to the Intifada summit. Azadeh Moaveni observes the guests vying for the limelight in Tehran
'Here I shall die' A besieged yet optimistic Arafat, dreaming of living and dying in Jerusalem, meets David Hirst in Ramallah	The skeleton in Israel's closet Israeli police mowed down 13 Palestinian citizens of the "Jewish state" early last October. A lot of dirty linen is emerging from the inquiry, writes Jonathan Cook