Al-Ahram Weekly Online   24 - 30 July 2003
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A more potent league
The Arab regional order may yet emerge strengthened by the Iraqi crisis, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Imperial perspectives
The distortions of imperial perspectives produce further distortions in Middle Eastern society that prolong suffering and induce extreme forms of resistance, writes Edward Said

The balance sheet, two years on
Two years after 11 September, is the terrorist threat receding or growing, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Permits from hell
The only democracy in the Middle East treats Palestinians like caged animals. Lisa Taraki describes how

Sharon's Palestinian 'state'
When the Israeli prime minister speaks of statehood, it is something far more limited he has in mind, writes Azmi Bishara

Colonialism reloaded
The Arabs may have invented modern mathematics, writes Abdel-Moneim Said , in the latest of a series of articles on Iraq, but when it comes to US motives for invading the country, the sums just don't add up

Cartoon by Gomaa

Editorial:
Amid the meetings
The socio-economic development of the entire Middle East is being bogged down by the stalemate that has afflicted the peace process...

Close up
Mercenaries in Iraq
To prevent their military victory turning into a political defeat occupying US- British troops in Iraq must now follow the path they earlier, and at enormous costs, rejected...
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
The Russians have arrived
Reality can exceed the most optimistic predictions: this at least is the case with Russian tourism to Egypt...
By Vladimir Beliakov

Iraqi resistance
Iraqi resistance is now an organised movement and not the work of individuals...
By Naguib Mahfouz


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