Al-Ahram Weekly Online   31 May - 6 June 2007
Issue No. 847
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Peace not bombs
A nuclear arms race in the Middle East would leave us all living in fear, writes Ahmed Abdel-Halim
A question of tolerance
Visiting Russia for the first time, Hassan Nafaa finds that justice is the key to dialogue between cultures
Self-inflicted deadly wounds
Everyone is guilty in the latest crises in Lebanon and Gaza, writes James Zogby
The hidden Arab moderates
While certain Arab governments are lauded by the West, democratic reform in the region is impeded by their efforts to exclude temperate Islamist forces from political life, writes Khalil El-Anani

Editorial:
America's jihad

Close up:
Getting real
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Who are we defending now?
By Bahieddin Hassan

Dialogues of Naguib Mahfouz:
Hidden somewhere
By Naguib Mahfouz


This week:
Cristan Munglu

Cartoon by Gomaa

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