Al-Ahram Weekly Online   9 - 15 November 2006
Issue No. 819
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

The final call?
Saddam Hussein may have been sentenced to death, but Iraq's troubles are far from over, suggests Ibrahim Nafie
Pinochet in Palestine
Joseph Massad looks at the similarities between regime change in Chile and Palestine and condemns the collaboration between Fatah and Palestine's enemies
Oslo's treacherous path
Ramzy Baroud remarks on recent dialogue between Hamas and parts of the international community in London. Will it merely be another false dawn?
Knowledge sharing: forever a future prospect?
The Director-General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura extols the virtues of shared knowledge as a means for the development of society
Matters of resistance
Mustafa El-Feki reflects on national and religious resistance, and finds the former rather more compelling
In the meantime
While a resolution sanctioning Iran languishes in the UN Security Council, the American navy flexes its muscles off the Iranian coast, writes Mustafa El-Labbad
In Focus: Moment of truth
Mesopotamia resists its modern invaders as the United States fails to learn lessons from its own, more recent, past, writes Galal Nassar

Cartoon by Gomaa

Editorial:
Securing the borders

Close up
Mere Happenstance?
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
Nuclear diplomacy
By El-Sayed Eleiwa

Dialogues of Naguib Mahfouz:
Turning point
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
Raouf Rashid Abdel-Rahman

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