Al-Ahram Weekly Online   26 April - 2 May 2007
Issue No. 842
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Keeping up the momentum
The re-launch of the 2002 Beirut initiative presents a new opportunity for peace at last, writes Ibrahim Nafie
Khatami at Al-Azhar
Mustafa El-Feki reflects on the enlightening message Iran's former president delivered in the name of tolerance during his recent visit to the bastion of Islam, Al-Azhar
What the moderate Arab world is
In the second of two pieces examining Iran's rising regional role, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb argues that attempts by "moderate" Arab leaders to whip up popular fear of Iran are US-orchestrated and aimed to keep in-check regional resistance to US-Israeli plans
Of cabbages and kings
When fundamentalists laud democracy, it's time to throw up your hands, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
In Focus: Bazaar diplomacy
When will the Arabs understand that the United States and Israel are not in the business of proposing equitable solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict, asks Galal Nassar
Finishing what Sadat started
As Arab states edge towards peace with Israel we should commemorate and give due credit to the man who took the first step on that path, writes Karim Yehia Youssef
On whose side is Al-Qaeda?
Tension between the national resistance in Iraq and Al-Qaeda mounts as the latter makes a bid for power monopoly, writes Lamis Andoni

Editorial:
Sectarian walls

Close up:
Drowning youth
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
The legitimacy of racism
By AUTHOR


This week:
Nicolas Sarkozy & Ségolène Royal

Cartoon by Gomaa

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