Al-Ahram Weekly Online   2 - 8 June 2005
Issue No. 745
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Looking ahead, not back
Now, writes Ibrahim Nafie, it is time to abandon talk of boycotts and prepare for elections
Targeting the university
Having usurped political power the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad
France votes 'no'
Was the French electorate's rejection of the EU constitution a surprise, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
Dimensions of power
Military force alone is not enough to secure a realm, writes Amin Howeidi
The reform dilemma
Hassan Nafaa outlines the implications of last week's referendum
Make it our goal
Definite if gradual steps must be taken towards reform: it is in the national interest, writes Gamal Zayda
The art of waiting
A Palestinian national project pretending to be a state and imitating Israeli rituals of statehood, but without a state. But where is liberation, wonders Azmi Bishara
Low expectations
The Palestinian president's trip to the US was not a failure, but then neither was it a victory, writes Samir Ghattas

Editorial:
Double standards, again!

Close up:
Press crunch
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
A battle lost, but not the war
By Salah Issa

Partial but important
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
Saad Al-Hariri

Cartoon by Gomaa

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