Al-Ahram Weekly Online   21 - 27 May 2009
Issue No. 948
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Design for living
Reem Leila reports on Mrs Suzanne Mubarak's inauguration of the final phase of the Zeinhom Urban Development Scheme
Propping up the bar
Lawyers are due to elect a new council and chair of the Bar Association. Mona El-Nahhas reviews the campaign
Bombers arrested
State security prosecutors are expected to start interrogating detainees believed to be behind the February Hussein bombings, reports Jailan Halawi
Against the grain
Accusations that substandard wheat has been imported from Russia have forced the government to propose new food safety measures, reports Gamal Essam El-Din
Turning up the heat
Cairo International Airport is using thermal body scanners to help detect passengers with swine flu, reports Amirah Ibrahim
Culling the innocent
Egypt's cull of its pig population is regarded as unnecessarily brutal, reports Reem Leila
Vaccine trials
Egyptian scientists have developed a new vaccine against bird flu virus, though it may take up to two years before it is available, reports Reem Leila

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