Al-Ahram Weekly Online   21 - 27 January 2010
Issue No. 982
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Region on the edge
Washington's best alternative to resource insecurity, regional instability and costly military misadventures is to support true democracy, justice and non-bias, writes Ayman El-Amir
The Prophet's promise to Christians
Those who seek to foster discord between Islam and Christianity ignore the decrees of the one to whom Islam was divinely revealed, writes Muqtedar Khan
Sectarian tensions are somebody's fault
It is the quest for religious purity that is at the heart of growing sectarian strife in Egypt, writes Amr Hamzawy
The deeper threat
The question of Gaza is not just about border security, but also the relation of state and society to religion, or between the secular and theocratic state and the proponents of each, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
The curse of Muslim lands
Too much innocent blood has been spilled in the name of Islam. It is time the madness came to an end, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed
White moderates and greens
American pundits who pontificate on the internal affairs of others only reveal themselves as irrelevant and ridiculous, writes Hamid Dabashi
Context to catastrophe
A large part of the suffering of Haiti now is due to US efforts to keep the country down, writes Curtis Doebbler

Editorial:
Unity in faith

Close up:
Turkish glamour
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Amity not enmity
By AUTHOR


This week:
Hassan Shehata

Cartoon by Gomaa

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