Al-Ahram Weekly Online   29 June - 5 July 2006
Issue No. 801
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Coptic treasures get the home they deserve
After a three-year restoration project the Coptic Museum was officially reopened by President Hosni Mubarak on Monday, reports Nevine El-Aref
Prize-worthy muddle
Artist George Bahgory has backtracked on his initial decision to refuse the State Excellence Award, reports Reem Nafie
Hamza acquitted
The British criminal court Old Bailey has cleared Egyptian engineer Mamdouh Hamza of plotting the assassination of four senior Egyptian government officials two years ago...
Infant vaccine victims?
Following the deaths of two infants in the town of Qwesna parents are panicking over whether or not to have their children vaccinated. Magda El-Ghitany reports from Menoufiya
Healthy politics
A high-profile plan to improve health insurance coverage for the poor is announced. Reem Leila reports
For speaking out
What will the one-year sentence given the editor-in-chief of Al-Dostour mean for freedom of the press, asks Mohamed El-Sayed
Back to square one
The Muslim Brotherhood is in the midst of the harshest security clampdown it has faced in a decade, the group's deputy supreme guide tells Amira Howeidy
Testing times
Gihan Shahine reports on the public outcry after a schoolgirl is punished for talking politics

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