Al-Ahram Weekly: When Narratives Collide (tags)
A View From An Egyptian Weekly Online: Desperation has no address, writes Azmi Bishara (Palestinian Israeli member of the Knesset); and kamikaze operations speak a language no one understands. [A few tantalizing excerpts from a much longer, thought-provoking, densely-woven piece. A must read for getting outside the US-Centric mindset.]
Al-Ahram Weekly: Caught in the Middle (tags)
A View From An Egyptian Weekly Online: Cairo is urging caution and restraint to a hotheaded Washington, warning: look before you leap, write Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty. [Excerpts. For full story, click link provided.]
Al-Ahram Weekly: A Forbidden Alliance? (tags)
A View From An Egyptian Weekly Online: Does Islam sanction suicide bombings? Can Muslim and non-Muslim countries join forces when launching attacks on Islamic states? Jailan Halawi monitors a growing controversy
Al-Ahram Weekly: In the Shadow of the WTC (tags)
A View From An Egyptian Weekly Online: There were no "celebrations" in the West Bank town of Jenin after the strikes on America. Nor were there mass outpourings of grief. At best there was a kind of empathy. Jenin too has been burying its dead.... Out of such destruction -- human and material -- suicide bombers hardly need to be "dispatched". They are bred. But it is Israel that has sown the seed and will reap the harvest. And if George Bush does to Afghanistan what Israel has done to Jenin, so will America.