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Shadow of the summit
Ibrahim Nafie reviews the achievements, and likely impact, of Saturday's Arab summit
Who is in charge?
A tiny, unelected group, supported by powerful, unrepresentative minorities, writes Edward Said
Unipolarity, multipolarity...and the impending war
As the Iraqi crisis reaches its most critical stage, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed asks: can war still be averted?
America's campaign of alienation
On Saturday, 15 February, a man protesting against a potential United States- led attack on Iraq waved a US flag with a Nazi swastika emblazoned on it, as President George W Bush was likened to Adolf Hitler...
Beyond miracles
There is no stopping the build-up to war, and its objectives are clear for all to see, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim
Power vacuum
What the World Bank says is perhaps less interesting than what it does not say, writes Galal Amin
Lost credentials
Before preaching democracy around the world the US would do well to put its own house in order, writes Nader Fergany
Politics of oil
American seizure of Iraqi oil following a war against Iraq would spell disaster for all Arab economies, bringing back memories of the colonial-era pillage, writes Ahmed El-Sayed El-Naggar
Dividing mankind
Is the Iraq standoff evidence that the world is wracked by a clash of civilisation? M Shahid Alam explores this train of thought
Sound and fury
Whose future? What future? Azmi Bishara strains to find an answer
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Editorial:
War versus inspection
The battle between these two will take place this week, in the UN Security Council chamber, when the US and UK try to pass a new UN Security Council resolution authorising the use of force against Iraq...
Close up
Imploding boxes
A few days before the Arab summit I was in Dubai and then Beirut...
By Salama A Salama
Soapbox
A movement is born
Some 30 million people, in 700 cities around the globe, took part in protest marches on the same day and with the same goal -- to oppose war and American attempts to impose its hegemony by force...
By
Medhat El-Zahed
Cultural globalisation
The cultural arena appears at the moment to be occupied by two camps...
By Naguib Mahfouz
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