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As millions of spectators around the world held their breath in curious anticipation, The Pyramid Rover, a custom-built robot, revealed yet another sealed door at end of the shaft inside Khufu's Great Pyramid --read on--

Opinion

Ibrahim Nafie:
First steps

Salama A Salama:
Explaining the enmity

Hassan Nafaa:
The tragic unraveling

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
Launching round II

Amr Elchoubaki:
Outlining a future

Benefit of the doubt
Dina Ezzat speaks to Amr Moussa, and other leading players, about securing the return of arms inspectors to Iraq

Shake-up of NDP
The NDP's three-day congress saw a shift in the balance of power away from the ruling party's old guard, writes Gamal Essam El-Din

Egypt

The dawn of a new era
After re-electing President Hosni Mubarak as its chairman, the eighth congress of the ruling NDP organised two days of intensive debates, before finalising its recommendations. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Changing from within
The NDP's 'new' vision was more organisational than ideological. Omayma Abdel-Latif reviews the party's document on platform and internal regulations

More secrets on the way?
The world watched as a tiny robot attempted to decipher some of the Great Pyramid's secrets. But Tuesday's live archaeology event, reports Nevine El-Aref, may have actually left onlookers even more perplexed than before

Region
America's choices Iraq has accepted the "unconditional" return of UN inspectors, Mohamed El-Sayed Said, in Washington, envisages possible future scenarios	Flexing democratic muscles The forced resignation of Arafat's cabinet does not necessarily mean weakening the Palestinian leader as Israel likes to believe, Jonathan Cook reports from Jerusalem

International

US to rejoin UNESCO
Following its withdrawal from UNESCO in 1984 citing the UN agency's "anti-Western bias", US President George W Bush last week announced that the United States will be rejoining, reports David Tresilian

A big catch
Another setback for Al-Qa'eda as Pakistani security forces catch a chief terrorist suspect, reports Iffat Malik from Karachi

Eyes on Algiers
What can an African Union convention on combating terror hope to achieve, wonders Gamal Nkrumah

Economy

Bouncing back
The 11 September attacks have certainly affected Egypt's economy, but not as badly as expected. Gamal Essam El-Din investigates

Tripping on TRIPS
Arab countries need to adopt a new approach to make the most of their TRIPS commitments, Niveen Wahish discovers while talking to a top intellectual property official

Akram Allam:
Intimations of immortality
Profile by Yasmine El-Rashidi

The Pharaoh's curse
Injy El-Kashef has never been more unpleasantly surprised

Limelight
By Lubna Abdel-Aziz

Culture

Intersections, transpositions
With the party over, Nehad Selaiha reflects on this year's CIFET and its cross-cultural currents

Photo Cairo
The participants speak to Youssef Rakha

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Monthly
Books Supplement

Features
Life choices Egypt has been awarded the UNESCO International Literacy Prize. Dena Rashed learns about the challenges that continue to face an ambitious literacy campaign	It's gonna cost Next Saturday is the official "back to school" date. Amira El-Noshokaty considers the price of education

Living	Travel
Not like back home Lina Mahmoud finds chicken instead of beef served at scaled-down Sudanese weddings in Cairo	An extremely modest genius Akila Fouad Cherine attends a birthday party on a boat which sails back through time

Sports
In the thick of things Three Egyptian football clubs remain in the fray of African championships but a fourth has departed. Abeer Anwar reports

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