Al-Ahram Weekly Online
6 - 12 September 2001
Issue No.550
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The dance of death
Faced with a ruthless army of occupation, Palestinians seem to have accepted that the suicide bomb is all they have left. Khaled Amayreh reports from Hebron

Standing proud
Strong Palestinian resistance, combined with world pressure, forced Israel to pull its troops out of the Palestinian West Bank town of Beit Jala. Michael Jansen reports from Jersualem

 

September's aplomb
Libya celebrates the 32nd anniversary of Al-Fateh Revolution with anti-American tirades and pan-African fanfare. Gamal Nkrumah reports

UNRWA in Cairo
UNRWA, the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees, tells the Arab League that the Israeli army is making its job almost impossible. Dina Ezzat reports

Turkish travails
As elections near, Turkish police detain nearly 1,000 Kurdish supporters and a smear campaign against a popular new party begins. Gareth Jenkins reports from Ankara

Tilting at windmills
As the oligarchs who dominate Syria's political scene assert themselves, Bashar Al-Assad's attempts to initiate reform appear increasingly hapless. In Damascus, Ranwa Yehia takes Syria's political temperature

Cinema verité?
After intellectuals and journalists, film-makers are now the latest victims of Iran's factional power struggle, Azadeh Moaveni reports from Tehran

Region Briefs
Out of Iraq
Substantial involvement
Six million dollar man
Opposition leader detained
Optimistic about the Western Sahara


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