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INTIFADA IN FOCUS

Diverging paths
Washington's Middle East policy is increasingly at odds with its allies. Hoda Tawfik reports from Washington, Soha Abdelaty from Cairo

Silence and old certainties
As Colin Powell was unveiling America's new order for the region, Palestinian guerrillas in the West Bank fought the old one, writes Graham Usher from Jerusalem

1952 - 2002

GOLDEN JUBILEE OF THE 1952 REVOLUTION

Safeguarding Nasser's legacy
Hoda Abdel-Nasser, daughter of the late president, has spent her professional career as a historian gathering the materials for a just assessment of her father's life and legacy, as she explains to Gamal Nkrumah

'The red major'
Former member of the Revolution Command Council and now president of the left-leaning Tagammu' Party, Khaled Mohieddin, still considers that he has not been properly honoured for the role he played in the 1952 Revolution, as he explains to Khaled Dawoud

Announcing the revolution
Fahmi Omar, former head of Egyptian Broadcasting, broke the news of the army coup d'état on the morning of 23 July 1952 to an anxious Egyptian public. In an interview with Omayma Abdel-Latif, he gives a rare glimpse of how the Free Officers first made their movement public

Neo-Pan-Arabism
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa tells Dina Ezzat that Pan-Arabism, a fundamental target of the July Revolution, is still on the agenda, but not in the same sense as before or after 1952

'It did not fail'
Few parts of the Revolution's programme have been as much criticised as its economic development policies. Socialist economist, former economic advisor to Nasser and minister of planning under Sadat Ismail Sabry Abdalla defends the Revolution's economic achievements in conversation with Hala Sakr

Egypt

Open-ended dialogue
Cairo and Tel Aviv spoke extensively this week, but prospects for an impasse in the Arab-Israeli crisis still seem elusive. Nevine Khalil reports from Alexandria

Brotherhood roundup
Police continued their clampdown on the banned Muslim Brotherhood group, arresting 28 members for allegedly planning pro-Palestinian demonstrations, reports Khaled Dawoud

Region

Restricting humanitarian aid
Israel has escalated its policy of deporting international humanitarian and aid workers seeking to provide support to Palestinians under occupation, Jonathan Cook reports from Jerusalem

International

Jostling for position in the African Union jive
The fanfare may be receding but the fallout from the inaugural African Union summit is still baffling observers, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Musharraf's bagful of woes
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's attempts to consolidate his power base are being assaulted on all fronts, writes Iffat Malik from Islamabad

Economy

A blueprint for reform
The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region leave a lot to be desired. Niveen Wahish checks out a report that reviews the status of those economies and offers policy recommendations

Skirting the dead end
The government's role as caretaker can only be reconciled with the requisites of economic reform if the prevalent public sector mentality is relinquished. Talaat Abdel-Malek writes

Living

Heritage

Masters of immobility
To the outsider, Cairo appears to be moving at a relatively brisk pace. Yasmine El-Rashidi, however, has an easy time overtaking the crowd