Al-Ahram Weekly Online   1 - 7 April 2004
Issue No. 684
Opinion
EGYPT 2010 MONDIAL BID
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Eye the real issues
Arab leaders should set aside this week's unfortunate events in Tunis and focus on the substantive problems facing all Arab nations, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Tomorrow's world
What lies behind Europe's anti-Russian rhetoric, asks Anouar Abdel-Malek

After Sheikh Yassin's assassination
To what extent will the political map of the Middle East be changed by Sharon's assassination of the Hamas leader, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

The long road to reform
Democratisation initiatives are coming thick and fast. But are they good enough for the region? Ahmed Abdel-Halim urges gradualism

No concession
Sharon's disengagement plan may appear to presage the end of the occupation, but closer examination reveals the pitfalls ahead for Palestinians and their hopes for an independent state, writes Jonathan Cook

All about oil
Action in the Supreme Court next month could reveal that Iraq's fate was decided as early as May 2001, writes Larry Everest

Inside out
"Spin it how you like, but reform," is the message Gamil Mattar hears the West give the Arabs

Colonial echoes
It is almost too easy to reveal what really lies behind the Greater Middle East Initiative, writes Galal Amin

A letter to living people
America is dead in its mind and its heart; it must fall to the peoples of the non-Western world to creatively overcome impunity and deception, writes Martin LeFevre

Editorial:
Unforgivable!

Close up
Ben Ali's wrecking ball
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
Summit doldrums

By Mohammad Al-Saaid Idris

Sharon's love of chaos
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
AMR MOUSSA

Cartoon by Gomaa

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