Al-Ahram Weekly Online
9 - 15 August 2001
Issue No.546
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Match me such marvel
Buses, ferries, taxis, mini-vans and shank's mare. Colin Keaveney takes everything but a mule from Cairo to Petra and back
The Pharaoh's divine nourishment
An inscribed limestone relief exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum has returned home 30 years after it was smuggled out of Egypt. Nevine El-Aref attended a ceremony to mark the occasion
Democracy Pharaonic-style
The newly-discovered, life-sized statue of a high-ranking military officer has dispelled the myth that such effigies were only sculpted for royal personages
Travel Briefs
MTF counts down
Curative tourism

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