More than meets the eye
The US has far-reaching ulterior motives for a military campaign against Iraq, argues Hassan Nafaa

Clinton's integrated global society
Bill Clinton believes the challenge of terrorism can best be faced by taking the growingly interdependent world community towards further integration rather than towards new confrontations, writes Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

War for oil?
Time -- and war -- will show just how much the Bush administration's campaign against Iraq is about oil, writes Roger Owen

From Balfour to Blair
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's recent statements in support of the creation of a Palestinian state should receive full Arab backing, writes Osama El-Ghazali Harb

No legal justification
Despite Anglo-American assertions to the contrary, under international law the UN Security Council cannot authorise a pre-emptive attack on Iraq, explains Ahmed N Roushdy

Editorial:
Encore Alexandria

Close up
Calling a spade a spade
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
The power thing
By Anwar Al-Hawwari

The absent caress
By Naguib Mahfouz

This week: SUZANNE MUBARAK