Al-Ahram Weekly Online
6 - 12 September 2001
Issue No.550
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Healing the wounds
By Ahmed Maher (extracted from his speech before the WCAR)
Cause and effect
By Amr Moussa (extracted from his speech before the WCAR)
Not merely in words
By Mary Robinson, from the opening speech of WCAR

Nelson and FidelTurning a blind eye
The US may have averted a confrontation about reparations for slavery at Durban, but recognition of the legacy of the slave trade is growing, writes Faiza Rady

Calling a spade a spade
You can dress it up any way you like, but in the end, its still apartheid, explains Azmi Bishara

RabbiCast out
Overwhelming support for the Palestinian cause among NGOs at Durban suggests that US and Israeli delegations at the WCAR didn't walk out -- they were drowned out

Frank talk
Washington's international moral currency was rightly devalued in Durban, where its hypocritical championing of democracy was exposed as a callous sham, argues Gamal Nkrumah


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