Informed prudence, calculated risk
Ibrahim Nafie sees signs of fresh thinking on economic policy

How useful the G-8?
From here on, the informal summits of the seven most industrialised countries, plus Russia, will take place in remote places, far from public scrutiny. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed comments

Occupation is the atrocity
What the Palestinians need now, writes Edward Said, is a united leadership that takes positions and plans mass actions designed not to return to Oslo but to press on with resistance and liberation

Snapshots from the edge of reason
Mohamed El-Sayed Said enters the theatre of the macabre

Editorial:
A war for everyone

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Arms and the man

Close up
Warm thoughts
By Salama Ahmed Salama

Soapbox:
Dollar dirge
By Magdi Mehanna

Naguib Mahfouz
A German in Bab Al-Futouh