Al-Ahram Weekly Online   24 - 30 May 2012
Issue No. 1099
Opinion
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Peace-making without mediators
The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has failed to deliver and it is time to look at other options, writes Nicola Nasser
Redefining the Arab Spring
The Arab Spring epithet ought not to obscure the importance of local circumstances, writes Ramzy Baroud
Madeleine Albright and the Iraqi genocide
The first Iraq Genocide Memorial Day was held earlier this month in memory of those who died as a result of sanctions and the US-led invasion, writes Felicity Arbuthnot
Electing the Egyptian president
With a run-off likely, the results of upcoming presidential elections look set to represent well the current condition of the Egyptian people, writes Abdel-Moneim Said
'We've never been here before'
Whoever Egypt's next president is, the country needs to rally around him, to address the grave economic crisis ordinary Egyptians face, writes James Zogby
Exiting the long dialectic of dictatorship
Only by political education will the Arab world be able to avoid falling into dictatorship, whether religious, secular or any other, writes Ayman El-Amir
Dynamics of inter-Islamist conflict
Recent weeks have witnessed numerous splits emerging between and within Islamist currents, so much so that the "Islamist project" appears a pipedream, writes Khalil El-Anani

Editorial:
The many challenges ahead

Close up:
Swing vote
By Salama A Salama

Soapbox:
Precarious process
By Negad El-Boraai


This week:
The ordinary Egyptian citizen

Cartoon by Gomaa

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