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When we were kings To celebrate the publication of the 1,000th issue of Al-Ahram Weekly, part of a journey that began 20 years ago in February 1991, Weekly staff members remember their experiences of working for Egypt's first English-language weekly newspaper
Even at random, samples of what the Weekly has had to offer over 1000 weeks show the depth and breadth of our Egyptian perspective
A moment of revelation Mohamed Hassanein Heikal tells Al-Ahram Weekly how decades after nationalising the Canal and going to war over it, Egyptians have finally re-appropriated Suez
The PLO's bargain Edward Said says that Yasser Arafat has failed to consult sufficiently widely, and has struck what looks like a poor bargain for the Palestinians
While Cairo gaps, the rest of Egypt pays The increasingly populous and polluted metropolis is receives too much, not too little, attention, according to Dr Milad Hanna. Efforts to improve conditions in Cairo only widen the gap between the capital and the rest of the country
Fighting for life on the streets As Egypt's population grows at a rate of a million every nine months, it is often the children who suffer the most. Gamal Essam El-Din investigates the plight of youngsters in Cairo
Keeping the Nile flowing With increasing demand and fickle supplies, Nile riparian countries are becoming more aware of the need for integrated water sharing and management. Many of the associated issues and development constraints surfaced at a recent conference in Aswan, writes Alan Nicol
Keeping track on the 'maximum' path to peace In the second of a series of two articles, Mohamed El-Sayed Said of the Al-Ahram Centre for political and Strategic Studies continues his discussion of topics that will top the agenda of the Middle East multilateral talks, scheduled for next Tuesday in Moscow. He proposed ways forward that should be considered by the participants if they want the talks to succeed
Reshaping history The death of Yasser Arafat provides some objective lessons on the importance of owning history and the principles that guide its proper shaping, writes Noam Chomsky
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