Al-Ahram Weekly Online   25 February - 3 March 2010
Issue No. 987
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Another lame summit
Without the collective political resolve necessary to face imminent regional challenges, the annual Arab summit will remain a pointless exercise, writes Hassan Nafaa
Ending political monotony
With mid-term legislative elections coming up later this year, what steps can ordinary people take to dispel political monotony, asks Amr Hamzawy
The road to hell
How can Obama expiate America for the sins of Guantanamo and its embrace of torture, asks James Zogby
Staring down a paper tiger
Henry Norr has a history lesson for Obama
Caught red- handed
Can the European countries involved really allow Israel to use their passports for state sponsored extrajudicial killing, asks Ayman El-Amir
Mossad's murderous reach
Israel's practice of extraterritorial assassination is a threat to the very basis of the international order, writes James Petras
Getting away with murder
Israel has been caught with a smoking gun in Dubai, but Washington is turning a blind eye, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed
In Focus: The Arab reform process
Democracy is feasible only when it takes on board the specifics of the society it seeks to govern, writes Galal Nassar
US vs Iran in Iraq
Events in Iraq are spinning out of whatever control the US still has there, warns Nicola Nasser
The El-Baradei phenomenon
The entrance of El-Baradei to the Egyptian political scene gives secular and liberal opposition parties a chance to regain ground from Islamists, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

Editorial:
Democracy vs sectarian elections

Close up:
Iranian nukes
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Can the Saudis do it?
By Abdallah El-Ashaal


This week:
Mohamed El-Baradei

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