In brief
A momentary lapse of dust
(cairolive.com, March 11, 2002)
The heat wave that began late last week may be ending sooner than most people expected, thanks to dust storms, heavy winds, and the possibility of rain. Those who warned that the higher temperatures of the past few days did not mean winter was officially over must have felt some satisfaction upon hearing confirmation of their views in meteorologists' predictions that made the front pages of most papers today..

Politics/Headline news
Deciding what to do
(cairolive.com, March 11, 2002) Magdi Mehanna, editor-in-chief of Al-Wafd, says it is risky for the Arabs to not include the possibility of war with Israel in their planning a response to the belligerence of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Mehanna is critical, in a front page column in today's Al-Wafd, of Arab foreign ministers' calls for international intervention and swifter movement by the United States. The US will not move unless the Arabs show some sort of unity first, Mehanna writes. 

One stand taken by the ministers at the just concluded ministerial meeting at the Arab League was the decision to continue supporting the Palestinians and the Intifada to the tune of 55 million dollars a month for a year.

Meanwhile, as the violence and death stepped up yet another notch over the weekend, Al-Akhbar's front page credits President Mubarak's efforts, and especially his last US trip, as important factors in both the US decision to send Anthony Zinni, its peace mediator, back to the region, and Sharon's decision to allow negotiations under fire (whereas earlier he had set an impossible to meet 7 day ceasefire condition). 

Mubarak will be meeting US Vice President Dick Cheney in Sharm El-Sheikh on Wednesday to discuss the deteriorating regional situation.

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New developments
New mufti is youngest-ever
(cairolive.com, March 11, 2002)  Egypt has a new mufti, according to this morning's papers. Now that Nasr Farid Wassil has reached retirement age, 56-year-old Ahmed El-Tayib has been assigned to the position. That makes El-Tayib, an Al-Azhar University professor, the youngest mufti ever. The Luxor native has written 19 scholarly works on various aspects of Islamic sharia law and philosophy. 

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