Al-Ahram Weekly Online
5 - 11 July 2001
Issue No.541
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Facing up to the future
Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara -- the city names are evocative of a fabulous civilisation; they hold pride of place in Islamic history. Yet what of their present? On the eve of the 10th anniversary of Uzbekistan's independence, Fatemah Farag tags along for a meeting of the Egyptian-Uzbek Cooperation Committee
Samarkand
Banking on a common heritage
Egyptian-Uzbek ties have a lot going for them. Why do they remain "minimal"? 		Samarkand
Lingering legends
Samarkand is not just a memory of old glory

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