Al-Ahram Weekly Online   10 - 16 November 2005
Issue No. 768
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

This week at the elections
Choosing a parliament capable of taking Egypt into the future is a solemn duty for all Egyptians, writes Ibrahim Nafie
Foot in the door of change
Across the world a movement for democratic futures is gathering, despite the United States and other inert and autocratic governments, writes Ayman El-Amir
The Mehlis challenge
Can President Bashar Al-Assad cope with the challenge put forward by investigator Mehlis, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed
History all around us
The Middle East is being dismantled and reassembled, the castle of the Arab world breached from within, writes Amin Howeidi
Autumn of polls
Egypt's recent experience of elections shows that the opposition has much work, and much thinking, still to do, writes Amr Hamzawy
Bridging the divide
Samir Morqos examines the history of -- and ways of moving beyond -- sectarianism
Preventable strife
Intelligent crisis management on the part of authorities could have forestalled the rapid escalation of sectarian tensions in Alexandria, writes Sameh Rashed

Editorial:
Practical manifestos

Close up:
Marketing war
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Who benefits?
By Magdi Youssef

The Nobel Prize
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
Kofi Annan

Cartoon by Gomaa

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