VIOLENCE, VIOLENCE EVERYWHERE: The Arab world did not have a monopoly on the year's brutal events, (from top) with disasters like the hostage-taking of a school in Beslan, Chechnya, and the bombing of subways in Madrid, Spain ending in tragedy all around; a humanitarian crisis -- involving the killing and displacement of thousands of people -- also escalated in Darfur, Sudan

© Copyright Al-Ahram Weekly. All rights reserved

Al-Ahram Weekly Online : Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/sc23.htm