Al-Ahram Weekly Online   15 - 21 October 2009
Issue No. 968
Egypt
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Reconciliation interrupted
Even if signed, which looks now impossible, any reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas appears unlikely to hold, Dina Ezzat reports
Calling Eastern Europe
President Hosni Mubarak concludes his six-day European tour that includes Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy on next Sunday
War games
Amirah Ibrahim reports on Bright Star, the biennial military exercise which this week ends its second phase
Wings of glory
Festive spirit: once again Egypt celebrates its Air Force Day, reports Amirah Ibrahim
Another political season
Gamal Essam El-Din previews the NDP's sixth annual conference, scheduled to begin on 31 October
Veiled reasons
The grand sheikh of Al-Azhar stirred troubled waters when he told an 11-year-old pupil at a girls-only school that there was no need for her to cover her face, reports Reem Leila
Mustafa fights her corner
Hala Mustafa, the editor of Al-Dimoqratiya, was questioned by the Press Syndicate following her controversial meeting with the Israeli ambassador to Egypt, Gamal Essam El-Din reports

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