Central Cairo shaken by pro-Palestine demos
Thousands of angry Egyptians demonstrated, today, against Israel's escalation in the Occupied Territories, reports Amira Howeidy

Opinion

INTIFADA IN FOCUS

Land Day March 30

Region

'Rage doesn't obey orders'
While Palestinian and Israeli officials discuss peace, Ariel Sharon continues on a path to war. Khaled Amayreh reports

Music by Sharon
In Al-Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah and Deheisha camp near Bethlehem, Khaled Dawoud found wanton destruction and continuing defiance

Feeding the flames
The visits to the Middle East by Dick Cheney and Antony Zinni appear to have only complicated the situation for both the US and Arab leaders on the Iraqi and Palestinian fronts, writes Michael Jansen

Summit

'A just peace or no peace'
Hours before Arab leaders were due to issue their summit declaration, Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League explains to Dina Ezzat, in an exclusive interview, that the Arabs are serious about peace, and are as serious that such peace will never be on Israel's terms

Peace prospects

Not being there

Ramallah or nowhere

Aligning inter-Arab boundaries

A taste of thyme

A gesture of solidarity

S u m m i t   i m a g e s

Egypt

Justice from abroad
Egypt, predictably, has dismissed a US report which blames an Egyptian co-pilot for the 1999 crash of EgyptAir flight 990 over the Atlantic. Anayat Durrani, in Washington and Amira Ibrahim, in Cairo, report

Guilty on appeal
Acquitted of all charges in his first trial, Sherif El-Filali, accused of spying for Israel, was sentenced to a mammoth 15-year prison term on appeal. Shaden Shehab was in court

International

The lobby that cried wolf
Enjoying an effective presence in the mainstream media, the British left's criticism of Israel has grown dramatically in both intensity and scope since the eruption of the Palestinian Intifada. The pro-Israel lobby's response was predictable: anti-Semitism. In London, Omayma Abdel-Latif reviews the debate

Insulted by Israel
Yehia Ghanem in Johannesburg interviews Ronnie Kasrils, South Africa's Minister of Water Affairs, on the latest row over his biting criticism of Israel's oppression of the Palestinians

Economy

Rate debate
New telephone rates were announced last week and customers are far from happy. Mona El-Fiqi reports.

Free, not lawless
Bahaa Ali El-Din argues that legislation regulating competition is essential to the functioning of a free market.

Features

Travel