Al-Ahram Weekly Online   14 - 20 April 2011
Issue No. 1043
Region
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

League steps up on Palestine
The Arab League is pursuing a double-pronged approach to the Palestinian issue, Dina Ezzat reports
Final hour confrontation
While stopping short of a Gaza ground war, Israel is hitting Palestinian resistance movements hard before the impact of Arab revolutions is felt, writes Saleh Al-Naami
Israel brutal as ever
Despite unprecedented Arab revolutions that suggest a new dawn in the region, Israel presses ahead with its old provocative policies, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem
From revolution to unsolved crisis
The three Yemeni conflicting political groups are not convinced by an American-backed and Saudi-led GCC plan to solve their crisis, says Nasser Arrabyee
Demanding agenda in Damascus
Al-Hariri first postponed his visit and then announced a long list of issues which did not suit the Syrians, reports Bassel Oudat in Damascus
Al-Sadr returns
Threats from Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr to reactivate the Al-Mahdi militia have led to renewed questions about the future of US troops in Iraq, writes Salah Hemeid
Libya's last leg
Oil politics will bedevil the resolution of the Libyan conflict even as the North African nation strives to implement radical reforms, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Europe feels the strain
While events in Ivory Coast drove the Libyan conflict off newspaper front pages this week, pressure is growing to find a solution to the crisis, writes David Tresilian in Paris
Tunisian renaissance
Political Islam will be part of any democratic Tunisia, Rachid Ghannouchi tells Graham Usher in Tunis

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