Al-Ahram Weekly

Backing Arafat
With the siege of Arafat lifted, Cairo's diplomatic efforts are focusing on asserting his leadership, Soha Abdelaty reports

Case snagged
A key witness in Saadeddin Ibrahim's re-trial has testified that she had no knowledge of the human rights activist's alleged misuse of foreign funding, reports Khaled Dawoud

Copts
Copts Easter
Patriarch of the Orthodox Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III, leads his flock..--see caption--

Easter breeze
Monday was a national holiday celebrating the festival of Sham Al-Nessim..--read on--

Fighting child labour
Mrs Suzanne Mubarak has launched "A future without child labour," the first report on child labour in the world. Gihan Shahine reports

Children's voices
During the opening of the UN Special Session on Children yesterday Mrs Suzanne Mubarak addressed the delegations of 190 countries, among whom were 85 heads of state..--read on--

Looking over private universities shoulders
Will the amendments to the legal framework for private universities improve their regulation? Mona El-Nahhas listens to the debate

EgyptAir crashes again
Fourteen people died, including seven Egyptians, when an EgyptAir Boeing 735- 500 with 62 passengers and eight crew members crashed on Tuesday as it was attempting to land at Tunis airport, reports Amira Ibrahim

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Effigy burning ban
Aid obstruction
Another pyramid

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		Al-Ahram Weekly Online 9 - 15 May 2002 Issue No.585
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