Politics/headline news
India asks Cairo to help
(cairolive.com, June 3, 2002) The lead item on Al-Wafd's Sunday front page is about the growing tension between Pakistan and India. It quotes the Indian ambassador in Cairo, at a press conference, appealing for Egypt to step in -- as a country with good ties with both sides -- and mediate for peace. Mainly, the paper says, the ambassador wants Cairo to convince Karachi that "showing off its muscles" with missile tests is not a smart idea.

Ad watch
Be different -- buy the same mobile logo as everyone else
(cairolive.com, June 3, 2002) An ad on the front page of Al-Akhbar urges consumers to be "different" by buying a unique logo for their mobile phone screen. After years of encouraging conformity, the makers of Egyptian pop culture now seem to be moving towards the "diversity" of western cultures... where "different" is a commodity to be bought and sold. The natural result is that everyone ends up being the same -- it becomes "mandatory" to have a cool, mobile phone logo, albeit one that's "different" from everybody else's. Amongst the logos on offer here, there are religious slogans, love notes, soccer related themes and cartoon characters like Snoopy.

Politics/headline news
Getting closer
(cairolive.com, June 3, 2002) Saudi Arabia and Iraq look to be approaching an even greater level of rapprochement than the one represented by the "historic" greeting that took place between Saudi crown prince Abdalla and a top Iraqi official at the Beirut Arab summit... Now, reports Al-Wafd on a recent front page, the Saudis are leaning towards agreeing to a request by Iraq's representative to the Islamic conference, to meet with the Saudi foreign minister in Jeddah. According to the paper, the representative may even set up shop in the Iraqi embassy in Jeddah, which has been closed since the Gulf War. 

New developments
Positive attention
(cairolive.com, June 3, 2002) Nihad Awad, who heads the prominent Washington-based Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), was interviewed recently on a half page in Al-Aharm. The interview represents one of the first times a leading Muslim American figure has been given this much coverage in the Arabic press. Amongst the things Awad says are that Muslims do not regret voting for George Bush in the last election, and that Bush's request to meet with Mubarak shows that America is considering changing its Mideast policy for the better. Awad is also hopeful about the three Muslim candidates running for the US Congress's next term.

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