Issue No. 796
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Papering the cracks
The Israeli prime minister's visit to Washington sees relations between the two allies in an unusual state of disarray, writes Emad Mekay from the US capital Walking a tight rope: A Sharm-Davos diary
By Assem El-Kersh  The punches keep coming
After last week's rejection of his appeal, Ayman Nour's political career will be on hold for at least a decade, reports Mona El-Nahhas Another Tuesday, another fall
Share prices continue to fall despite positive economic indicators, writes Sherine Abdel-Razek Plus ça change
Iraq's cosseted politicians finally announce who among them gets what in the new government, while ordinary Iraqis turn up dead and tortured, writes Nermeen El-Mufti Congress told to maintain aid to Egypt
By consistently toeing the US line Cairo is winning friends in Washington, writes Emad Mekay Sentences in wake of fire tragedy
Former Cultural Palaces Director Mustafa Elwi and seven other top officials in the Ministry of Culture were each sentenced on Monday to 10 years' hard labour and given a LE10,000 fine for their responsibility in the Beni Suef theatrical conflagration, Nevine El-Aref reports A new beginning
The new Iraqi cabinet faces an uphill battle to restore order and achieve national reconciliation  Not civil war
While the situation in Gaza has not yet pitched brother against brother, the increase in violence between Hamas and Fatah is alarming, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank Face to face
Hamas deploys militants on the streets of Gaza sparking fresh violence between Fatah loyalists and their Islamist counterparts, reports Erica Silverman Future budgeting
The People's Assembly and Shura Council are heatedly debating the state's 2006/2007 budget and development plan. Gamal Essam El-Din listens in  Some beyond saving
Dictators masquerading as democrats hold back political liberty in Africa, writes Gamal Nkrumah Out but not down
Caught between a rock and her own hard line, the outspoken Ayaan Hirsi Ali is being stripped of her Dutch nationality and has been forced to give up her seat in the Dutch parliament following allegations of identity fraud. Khaled Diab reports from Amsterdam  Survival strategies
Samir Farid is impressed by El-Banat Dol, the documentary on street children that is the only Egyptian production to be screened at Cannes Adieu Bonaparte
Robert Solé's new account of Napoleon's Egyptian expedition seems set to become the standard history of Egypt's short-lived French occupation, writes David Tresilian  Minya calling
NGO work never far from her mind, Amira El-Noshokaty flits from bricks to sandwiches Four for free
FIFA's main man says the world will, for one month, forget its madness. Inas Mazhar reports from Zurich |
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The date when Ramses II will bid a last good-bye to the traffic, fumes and noise of Cairo's busy Ramses Square has at last been set...
Staging terror
Nehad Selaiha is profoundly moved by a production of a modern Spanish theatre classic at Al-Hanager
The bearer of the message
The art of diplomacy remains little changed since ancient days, writes Gamil Mattar Palestinian unilateral implosion
The Palestinians should quit governing themselves to the benefit of their colonial master and instead leave the political and financial burden to the state of Israel, where legally it lies, writes Adam Shapiro Occupation is unilateral
From the early 1990s, the Israeli occupation has had but one goal: the complete destruction of the Palestinian national cause, writes Gabriela Becker Egypt: Sunni but Shia inclined
Though Sunni, Egypt by history is founded on a Shia base, confounding agitators who want to drive a confessional wedge into the heart of Islam, writes Mustafa El-Feki Davos to downtown
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