Al-Ahram Weekly Online   30 November - 6 December 2006
Issue No. 822
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

130 years of excellence
Ibrahim Nafie lauds the achievements of the Arab world's "paper of record"
Rights group disgrace
In condemning Palestinian attempts to non-violently resist occupation and aggression, Human Rights Watch has shown itself to be morally bankrupt, writes Jonathan Cook
On ethnic cleansing and racism
The ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population over almost 60 years could not have occurred without the concomitant racist discourse coming from the Israeli nation, writes Ramzy Baroud
Chasing mirages
Ever since Sadat gambled and lost with Israel, Egypt has been on the back foot, reactive and often wrongheaded on the Arab-Israeli conflict, writes Hassan Nafaa
Fifty years later
Mustafa El-Feki remembers the Suez crisis as the high point of Arab solidarity, and looks at the effects and importance of that momentous time
Waiting for Baker-Hamilton
With the US cornered in the region, everyone, including the White House, awaits the findings of a high-level panel on US Middle East policy, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

Close up
Sectarian malaise
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
What's wrong with it?
By Gamal Qutb

Dialogues of Naguib Mahfouz:
A bastion of freedom
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
Pierre Gemayel

Cartoon by Gomaa

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