One into four
The Quartet, so far, has served as a smoke screen for Washington. What hopes, then, for any effective internationalisation of the peace process, asks Mohamed Khaled El-Azar

The Kagan thesis (1) -- Of basic dissimilarity
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed investigates, in three installments, a new set of ideas put forward by American scholar Robert Kagan

Can the catastrophe be averted?
Should the Arabs resign themselves to a US strike on Iraq? An Egyptian gesture towards Baghdad could still turn the situation around, writes Hassan Nafaa

Unbuilding Babel
To make sense of the conflicting voices involved in the peace process, the international community should impose a common language, the language of law, writes Marwan Bishara

Development as apartheid
Technology may still be harnessed to create a better future, write Mohsen Zahran and Sherine Amin -- but only if we address the divisions which it has caused

Editorial:
Global blockbuster

Reflections
Taking the waters
By Hani Shukrallah

Close up
Party blues
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
The politics of emotion
By Anwar El-Hawari

The philosophical gaze
By Naguib Mahfouz

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