Al-Ahram Weekly

9 - 15 February 2006
Issue No. 781
Opinion

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Ibrahim Nafie argues that the response to the Danish cartoon crisis should be to campaign for legal protection of religious symbols

Hamas, writes Hassan Nafaa , could well turn out to be the latter

Mohamed Sid-Ahmed asks whether "inventing" a way out of the Middle East quagmire is still possible

Joseph Massad writes on the implications of the Hamas funding dilemma

Editorial:
Touch of hypocrisy

Close up:
Grapes of wrath
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Racist depictions
By Raouf Mosaad

Dialogues of Naguib Mahfouz:
Insult and injury
By Naguib Mahfouz

This week:
Eissa Hayatou