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More than 150 Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers, backed by helicopter gunships, swept into Nablus in the early hours of Wednesday morning amid intensive and indiscriminate machinegun fire --read on--

Opinion

Edward Said:
Europe versus America

Ibrahim Nafie:
Repairing the damage

Salama A Salama:
Carriage before the horse

Marwan Bishara:
Back to the future

Abdel-Moneim Said:
Iraq, Sudan and others

Soheir Morsy:
American voices of dissent

Bloody electioneering
Sharon and Netanyahu battle it out against a violent backdrop, reports Jonathan Cook from Jerusalem

Kuffiyas and red flags
In Florence Hani Shukrallah joins a million others to demonstrate against America's war on Iraq

Egypt

Choices of a lifetime
Egypt cautiously welcomed Security Council Resolution 1441 as an opportunity for Iraq to avert a US military strike. Soha Abdelaty reports

Secret dialogue
Cairo is the venue for yet another round of talks between Palestinian factions wading through thorny issues and future challenges. Amira Howeidy reports

Doubts accompany parliamentary opening
As the People's Assembly embarks on its third session, Gamal Essam El-Din previews the agenda and spotlights one of its hotter issues

The Brotherhood's biggest challenge?
Speculation is rife that the Muslim Brotherhood is ripe for a changing of the guard. Omayma Abdel-Latif speaks to some of the outlawed group's senior members

Mediaeval mosque re-opens
The 15th-century mosque and madrasa of Al-Ustadar in mediaeval Cairo re-opened on Sunday after restoration. Nevine El-Aref was there

Region
A pretext for war? With a unanimous vote at the Security Council threatening "serious consequences" if Baghdad does not comply with new weapons inspections, the UN has given the Bush administration international cover to attack Iraq, writes Salah Hemeid A lesser evil Ditching their vocal radicalism, the Syrians voted in favour of a flawed United Nations resolution on Iraq. And, says Mohamed Khaled El-Azaar, they did the right thing Unity in the face of adversity? Facing the 'anti-peace' Sharon-Netanyahu-Mofaz government, Palestinian factions are seeking unity, writes Khaled Amayreh from occupied Jerusalem	Death by Predator The killing of an Al-Qa'eda suspect in Yemen has raised questions about the lengths the US will go in its war against terrorism, writes Nyier Abdou
	Focus
	Finishing the job Opinion polls show that more than 40 per cent of Israeli Jews support schemes to encourage or force Arabs to leave the occupied territories and Israel. Is transfer inevitable, asks Jonathan Cook

Economy
Sales tax brawls One month after its application, the business community and the government are locked in a dispute over the workings of the sales tax, Sherine Nasr writes	Liberalising the Arab skies EgyptAir has become a leading proponent of the liberalisation of air transport in the Arab world. Amira Ibrahim reports

International

A step to the right
Thomas Ford examines how the Democrats became more Republican and US politics became static

Eldoret rallies Somalis
Somali peace talks entered a second and decisive phase amid the eruption of intense fighting between rival clans and US military designs in the Horn of Africa, writes Gamal Nkrumah

An insider's job?
The Pentagon is investigating the source of a series of photographs released to the press of Al-Qa'eda and Taliban prisoners handcuffed, hooded and chained to the floor of a US military airplane, reports Anayat Durrani from Washington

Harry Potter clones
Chinese and Russian versions of the little British magician may soon flood global markets, reports Shohdy Naguib from Moscow

Inaam Salousa:
Wasifa's permutations
Profile by Youssef Rakha

Baby on board
Injy El-Kashef is grateful for high capacity washing machines

Culture
The audience invisible Amal Choucri Catta almost goes to China	Woman, nation, TV Behind the scenes of this year's Ramadan dramas with Amina Elbendary
>i< An all-inclusive guide to goings on around Cairo >i<

Living	Features
Students without borders Nyier Abdou finds an old idea polished up for the electronic age no worse for the wear	Piety and shining lights By George Bahgory

Heritage	Travel
Digging by the book A new department for foreign archaeological missions was created earlier this year. Seven months down the line Jill Kamil and Nevine El-Aref talk to Supreme Council of Antiquities Secretary-General Zahi Hawass about the additional rules and responsibilities required of missions working in Egypt	Pavlovas under a milky moon Much of the Western Desert was once green enough to support vast tracks of cultivation, including vineyards. Jenny Jobbins checks out their traces on a slow drive from Bahariya to Farafra
Sports
Together no longer For the first six weeks of the season, Ahli and Zamalek were in a dead heat. That is no longer the case, writes Abeer Anwar

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