Al-Ahram Weekly Online   8 - 14 January 2004
Issue No. 672
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Constructive change
Reform must have clearly defined goals, writes Ibrahim Nafie

A short history of apartheid
Land is at the heart of the drama unfolding in Palestine. But it is not the only thing, argues Azmi Beshara

Messengers of mass deception
Examining the mixed reaction of Arab public opinion to Saddam's capture Johnny Sarraf wonders what happened to the WMDs

Two decades on
Mohamed Hakki finds reasons to be cheerful in a new book outlining the potentials, as well as the pitfalls, of globalisation

Alternative globalisation
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that globalisation need not in all circumstances go against democracy

The real road to peace
John V Whitbeck finds much to applaud in the Geneva Accord signed by Yossi Beilin and Yasser Abed Rabbu a little over a month ago

Cartoon by Gomaa

This week:
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Editorial:
Significant steps
The meeting between President Mubarak and President Khatami in Geneva last month marked a significant step in the rapprochement between Egypt and Iran...

Reflections
Vacuous identities
By Hani Shukrallah

Close up
Veiled intent
More important than the veil and its legality in France, for us at least, is the question of our own People's Assembly and its legitimacy...
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
Success in disaster
The new year opened with a tragic plane crash in Sharm El-Sheikh...
Fadia El-Ghazali Harb

New year
In 2003 we saw the invasion of Iraq, the worsening of conditions in Palestine and Washington's increasingly arbitrary use of power...
By Naguib Mahfouz

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