Commentary
Strangling Powell's peace mission
(cairolive.com, April 18, 2002) A cartoon on the front page of Al-Wafd shows Colin Powell being shaken and strangled by Ariel Sharon in the first frame, and Powell subsequently shaking and strangling Arafat in the second frame. The cartoon is meant to be a summary of "Powell's Middle East mission". Cartoonist Fathi also weighs in on the issue here. 

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Politics/headline news
Bad timing
(cairolive.com, April 18, 2002) There's a significant amount of critical commentary in the papers about the timing of Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera's release of the Sept 11 hijacker tape... A back page column in Al-Wafd asks why a channel that purports to sympathize with the Palestinian cause, is now reinforcing to the world that Arabs are terrorists? A Sikeena Fouad column in Al-Ahram also tackles the same issue, and Shrinking Globe asks Why now?  

Miscellaneous
Naughty sheep spoils birthday bash
(cairolive.com, April 18, 2002) A sheep wreaked havoc at a birthday party being thrown in the honor by a school supervisor in Ismailiya, according to a tiny item on the front page of a recent Al-Wafd. A couple of naughty students untied the sheep, which was set to be slaughtered and eaten, and it ended up running amok in the school's courtyard, disrupting the band that was playing, and even venturing into the school's classrooms and injuring a few students, before calm resumed. The paper says Education Ministry authorities have decided to transfer the supervisor -- who shouldn't have been using school grounds for the party -- to another job as a result.   

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