Al-Ahram Weekly | International

16 - 22 October 2008
Issue No. 918
International

Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Arab and African countries discover that they are in the same sinking boat as Western economies, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The international economic crisis has exposed Pakistan's economic frailties, writes Graham Usher in Islamabad

By Marwa Tawfik

The 2008 presidential campaign for the White House has been long and winding, at times, downright ugly, reports Anayat Durrani

James Zogby explains the arcane but fascinating nature of US presidential elections

The UN vote to refer Kosovo's legitimacy to the ICJ reveals a new political constellation taking shape, observes Eric Walberg