Al-Ahram Weekly Online   7 - 13 October 2010
Issue No. 1018
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Lockouts and irrelevance
This year's UN General Assembly was exceptional only in the degree to which civil society was excluded and substance was avoided, writes Curtis Doebbler
Reductive arguments
The Arab world's lack of democracy is not the fault of the West, writes Amr Hamzawy
In place of strife
Strife is one of the most ambiguous political concepts, and potentially lethal for countries and peoples, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
Millennium apathy
The UN Millennium Development Goals Summit was a tired and disappointing affair, says Mohsen Zahran
Partitioning Iraq
Muhannad El-Azawi documents the planned destruction of Iraq following the US invasion and calls on Iraqis not to fall in the trap laid for them
Nick Clegg's Zionist hymn-sheet
British Liberal Democrat leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg seems to be changing his tune on Palestine, writes Stuart Littlewood in London

Editorial:
Netanyahu's antics

Close up:
Sole leaders
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Negotiation... or reconciliation?
By Abdallah El-Ashaal


This week:
Pope Shenouda III

Cartoon by Gomaa

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