Al-Ahram Weekly

As the war on Lebanon enters its 4th week, Al-Ahram Weekly's analysts and correspondents search for clues to the obstinate questions behind the six-decade-old Arab-Israeli struggle

Qana: past and present

The southern Lebanese town of Qana has witnessed two of the worst, appalling and unforgivable crimes in history, both carried out by the Israeli army. The first massacre took place in 1996 while the second happened just a week ago during the recent Israeli aggression

SOS Lebanon

the war on Lebanon is taking its toll on the civilian population, Lucy Fielder reports on Lebanon's worst humanitarian crisis.

Rallying behind Hizbullah

Support for Hizbullah among the Lebanese is at an all time high, reports Lucy Fielder from Beirut

Resistance renews itself

The more havoc Israel wreaks, the more resistance it will face, writes Serene Assir

Cairo makes a U-turn

Dina Ezzat observes Egyptian diplomacy changing tactics on the Lebanese crisis

The argument gets blunter

The world pronounced the Israeli air strike on Qana "indiscriminate and excessive", but it couldn't impose a truce because of Washington's objections, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Winner takes all

Any ceasefire package that does not get the consent of Hizbullah is doomed, writes Omayma Abdel-Latif

Doing their part

A group of government and non-governmental organisations are showing they care for the plight of Palestinian and Lebanese women. Dina Ezzat reports

Solidarity struggle

Egyptians are fed up with their government's indifferent reaction to the Qana massacre, report Pierre Loza and Mohamed El-Sayed

Mission to Lebanon

With the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon deepening, Amirah Ibrahim joined two Egyptian military flights taking relief aid to Beirut and returning with Egyptian nationals fleeing Israel's onslaught

A diary of terror and resistance

Rehab Saad recounts a diary of three weeks of Israeli aggression on Lebanon and the diplomatic missions to stop the war

Premeditated war

Jonathan Cook , in Nazareth, argues that though Israel would have the world believe the opposite, it is not Hizbullah that is acting fanatically. He also examines the fissure in Israeli support for the war in Lebanon since its outbreak

Letter from Lebanon

How do we sleep while Beirut is burning

The battlefront of Lebanon against Israel has an inroad that will generate a national liberation movement, akin to that in Palestine. Both, argues Hamid Dabashi, are more likely to export democracy back to Iran than to import an Islamic Republic into Lebanon and Palestine

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