Al-Ahram Weekly Online
16 - 22 May 2002
Issue No.586
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Sharm El-Sheikh meetingHolding out for peace
After yet another summit in which the Arabs spelled out their peaceful intentions it is now time for Israel to show its true colours. Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty review the outcome of the Sharm El-Sheikh meeting

Cross-border fallout
As regional tensions remain at an all-time high, Israeli tourism to Egypt is plunging to new lows. Rehab Saad investigates

Continuing solidarity
With the arrest of several Palestine solidarity activists in Cairo and Alexandria this week, friction between the movement and the government seemed to heat up. Amira Howeidy reports

Solidarity renaissance
At the feet of Mahmoud Mukhtar's famous Egypt's Awakening statue and near the Israeli Embassy in Giza, approximately 200 women demonstrated peacefully on Tuesday to mark the 54th anniversary of Al-Nakba --read on--

Clamp down on endemic corruption
Businessmen, a state governor and a number of MPs are all being lined up to face corruption charges at the Supreme State Security Court, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Moving to implementation
Agreements have been signed and initiatives are on the table. Soha Abdelaty tries to discover why Cairo and Khartoum continue to take only small steps towards each other

Standard of proof
As the retrial of prominent human rights activist Saadeddin Ibrahim continued, his lawyers argued that the foggy prosecution case proved their client was innocent. Jailan Halawi reports

Probable cause
Egypt and Tunisia are drawing on French expertise in investigating the cause of the EgyptAir crash that killed 14 people in Tunis last week. Amira Ibrahim reports

Names on the wall
Businessmen and professionals are not very happy about a recently-launched Cairo governorate campaign to remove name-plates from the façades of the city's buildings. Mona El-Nahhas reports


Oldest skeleton found

Belgian-Egyptian excavators have stumbled upon the oldest human skeleton in North Africa, reports Nevine El-Aref

Newsreel
Spy or psychotic?
Radio solidarity
Cultural appointment
Unconventional dogma


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