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27 Dec. 2001 - 2 Jan. 2002
Issue No.566
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Abu Simbel
Shortly before the sun set in the clear Abu Simbel sky on Sunday, President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated sections of the Ramses II and Nefertari temples, recently upgraded to facilitate the reception of tourists --read on--

OPEN PAGEOpinion

Ibrahim Nafie:
No more palliatives
Azmi Bishara:
Killing off the extras
Osama El-Ghazali Harb:
The trouble with America
Roger Owen:
The uses and abuses of comparison
Hassan Nafaa:
Trying to spot the difference

2001: Beginning at the end
2001 Special Supplement
Quoth the raven, nevermore: year's end, and the pivotal moment of death/rebirth is upon us once more..--read on--

Ismail Sabri Abdalla:
A world without borders

Edward Said:
A living idea

Sex, lies and censorship
Back, with a vengeance
The end of an ideology

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WAR COVERAGE
INTIFADA IN FOCUS

One-sided cease-fire
Sharon ratches up the spiral of violence, while both Hamas and Jihad call a halt to operations within Israel, reports Khaled Amayreh from the occupied West Bank

Keeping the ball rolling
Boosted by its success in Afghanistan, the Bush administration is seeking to expand its war across the globe, reports Anayat Durrani in Washington

OPEN PAGEEgypt

Striking a balance
Cairo believes that maintaining a moderate position towards an intransigent Israel is the best strategy for now. Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty look at the reasons why

Top Brothers in the dock
The military trial of 22 leading Muslim Brotherhood figures is part of the fallout of the 11 September attacks

Wadie Kirolos It is with great sadness that we must report the death, on Monday, of Wadie Kirolos, Al-Ahram Weekly's assistant editor- in-chief and, since the inception of the paper, the editor of the Weekly's home pages. --read on--
A sturdy operator

OPEN PAGEEconomy

€Here to stay
If you have a few French Francs or Deutschmarks left over from a recent trip, beware... they are about to become worthless, writes Niveen Wahish

Against the clock
Some say that time is running out for OPEC. But OPEC is setting a course for a new era as it prepares for its Friday meeting in Cairo, reports Gamal Nkrumah

OPEN PAGERegion

?Arafat's choices
Despite efforts by the Palestinian Authority to restore calm, Israel is continuing to exert extreme pressure on Palestinians, reports Khaled Amayreh from the occupied West Bank

Living dangerously
The efforts of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to halt resistance attacks against Israelis appear to have pre-empted a military escalation against the Palestinian National Authority over the holiday season. Michael Jansen writes

OPEN PAGEWar

X-mas

Victory of sorts
After the carnage, the stock-taking. Iffat Malek considers the United States' record in the war in Afghanistan

Lessons unlearned
If there was anything to take away from the bloody prisoner uprising in Afghanistan last month, it was that detained Al-Qa'eda fighters do not stop fighting, Absar Alam reports from Islamabad

The dynamics of escalation
Drum-beating in New Delhi suggests that just as one South Asian war is dying down, another may be starting up, writes Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Somalia next on the block?
Few of the countries on America's post-Afghanistan hit-list in Africa have the stomach for a fight with Uncle Sam. Not least Somalia, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Take me to your leader
The US is hoping that Taliban and Al-Qa'eda prisoners will provide a "treasure trove" of intelligence. But at what expense? Nyier Abdou tracks the fate of thousands of war prisoners netted in Afghanistan

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OPEN PAGEInternational

Adolfo Roderiguez SaaPots and pans coup
Argentina's government has fallen because of overwhelming public wrath, writes Hisham El-Naggar from Buenos Aires

 

Leopold Sedar SenghorObituary
Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001), writes Gamal Nkrumah
Bahgory 2002
Portraits of the year by Bahgory
Pot Pourri
Truth and tape
By Fayza Hassan Restaurant review
Playing by the rules
Injy El-Kashef becomes a law-abiding citizen

OPEN PAGECulture


A play for today
A brilliant young director, the Egyptian premiere of Brecht's The Life of Galileo: Nehad Selaiha finds things to celebrate at Al-Hanager


Umm Kulthoum superstar
The new Kawkab Al-Sharq Museum gives the work of Egypt's leading diva a peculiarly postmodern flavour: Youssef Rakha and Nevine El-Aref report
L I S T I N G S
>i< An all-inclusive guide to goings on around Cairo >i<

OPEN PAGEFeatures

OPEN PAGETravel


Pride and prejudice
This year's Ramadan hit portrayed some twisted role models. Amina Elbendary glares at the screen


2001 -- a place odyssey
In the 19th century, the fashionable Grand Tour through Europe and around the Mediterranean took months. Jenny Jobbins did it in seven days, but still found time to relax

OPEN PAGELiving

OPEN PAGESports


Myths and other things
Christiane Nasser, in Bethlehem, searches in vain for Christmas spirit


The teenage year
Youngsters had the edge in the year that was, writes Nashwa Abdel-Tawab

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