Al-Ahram Weekly Online   14 - 20 December 2006
Issue No. 824
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

On sectarian and ethnic sobriquets
However much you re-label the jar, the contents remain the same, writes Azmi Bishara
The way forward
The new report on Iraq offers hope for both sides, taking a very different position from that of the present US administration, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
Still Jews only
Recognising Israel's "right to exist" is in practice bowing to paranoid state racism, writes Jonathan Cook
Peace, not apartheid
Now even a former US president is saying that Israel is a racist state, writes Ibrahim Nafie
Third generation political Islam
In the Arab world there exists a range of centrist Islamist parties that have harmonised democratic aspirations with the moral foundations of Islam, writes Khalil El-Anani
In focus: When democracy fails
National unity fronts are all well and good, but what the region really needs is effective democratic government, writes Galal Nassar

Editorial:
A little too late

Close up
Forgotten children
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox
Egypt and Pakistan
By Mahmoud Murad


This week:
Mohamed Abu Treika

Cartoon by Gomaa

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