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Time for action
We may not have been able to stop the war, but we still can deprive the invasion of legitimacy, Ibrahim Nafie writes
Policing the academy
Joseph Massad on the McCarthyism stalking American campuses
The Iraqi war & the future of the UN
As the war on Iraq enters its most critical phase, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed raises questions about the future of the United Nations
Seeking to win Arab "hearts and minds" to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair wrote an article for the Arabic daily Al-Ahram of 30 March. Al-Ahram Board Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Nafie replied in the same issue. As a service to English-language readers, Al-Ahram Weekly reprints their debate below
Why the war ; Who will history favour?
They didn't rise
Bassam Haddad explains why Americans remain totally bewildered by the Iraqi's stiff resistance to their self-styled 'liberators'
Jews out of court
Josh Ruebner , in an open letter, calls upon Paul Wolfowitz to resign, now
Roadmaps to devastation
The only discernible roadmap is that linking the aggression in Iraq with that in Palestine, writes Azmi Bishara
UN membership for Palestine -- now
The bleak picture in Palestine and Iraq makes it even more imperative for the Palestinian leadership to take a bold step forward, writes John V Whitbeck
In the balance
Iraq's future is anything but predetermined, argues Abdallah Al-Ashaal
Nobody's smiling
Between a domestic regime's repression and welcoming a foreign invasion, "falls the shadow", writes Sharif Elmusa
Document: The right to march
The Administrative Court, first circuit, issued an important ruling on 4 February overturning a Cairo Security Department order rejecting the request submitted by Dr Abdel- Mohsen Hamouda, a veteran political figure, to organise a peaceful protest march to protest the [then] impending war against Iraq...
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Editorial:
In the name of peace
After 20 days of killing scores of civilians almost every hour, American and British soldiers appear to have decided that 'liberating' Iraq requires more than simply slaughtering its people...
Close up
Animosity here to stay
While fires rage on Baghdad's horizon, Arabs and Muslims are subjected to a concerted media campaign comprising conflicting reports about the US-British invasion of Iraq...
By Salama A Salama
Soapbox
Syria and the axis of evil
Syria is the only Arab state whose territory is still occupied by Israel...
By Mahmoud Shukri
War news
Now that the American war on Iraq has entered its fourth week, an interesting observation is possible: American forces went to Iraq thinking they would return victorious within days; and yet it has already taken so long, and the Americans are still trying to take control of the conflict...
By Naguib Mahfouz
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