Al-Ahram Weekly Online   22 - 28 July 2004
Issue No. 700
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Cairo to Arafat: enough with the games
Dina Ezzat tries to find out whether or not Egypt would throw its weight behind Arafat to rescue him from political oblivion
More professors, less generals
New appointments see more academics become provincial governors, Gamal Essam El-Din reports
Military aid crisis
In an unprecedented vote, the US House rejected a proposal to cut Egypt's military aid in half, Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington
Preparing for September
Ahmed Nazif's new cabinet held its first meeting this week amidst increasing criticism of the government's excessive allegiance to the NDP. Gamal Essam El-Din reports
New government faces sceptical public
It will take much more than the recent ministerial reshuffle to satisfy a frustrated general public, reports Shaden Shehab
Exam results make for net traffic jam
Thousands of students went online last week to find out how they did on the Thanawiya Amma exams. The result, writes Reem Nafie, was a lot of business and too much traffic
A spark away from oblivion
Luckily, last week's fire at the National Library was minor. It could have damaged a treasure trove of historic manuscripts, writes Nevine El-Aref

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