http://www.metafilter.com/tags/al-ahram Posts tagged with 'al-ahram' at MetaFilter. Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:18:50 -0800 Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:18:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/34098/AlAhrams%2DSpecial%2DEdition%2DIraqi%2DReaction%2Dto%2DTransfer%2Dof%2DSovereignty <em>On Monday, US Civil Administrator Paul Bremer handed over "sovereignty" to the Interim Government of Iraq in a furtive ceremony, two days ahead of schedule. Not the stuff that independence days are made of. How sovereign is Iraq; what kind of future does the ongoing process offer for that shattered nation; and most significantly, how can a genuinely free, democratic and prosperous Iraq be created? <a href="http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/697/special.htm" title="Who will rule Iraq? - Aziz Jabr Shayyal assesses the political fortunes of the different Iraqi groups and the prospects for state building; Hard days ahead - Saif Abu Gulal writes on the challenges facing Iraq's interim government in the months ahead; The future of Iraqi resistance - The post-Saddam Hussein era has been one of triumphs and defeats on all sides, writes Abdul-Hussein Shaaban; 'Iraq's long shadow' - Anas Al-Tikriti argues that the rhetoric about the power handover to Iraqis is no more than an attempt to make an essentially ugly situation slightly more palatable; Anatomy of a people - Disparate forces released in the new Iraq are simply a consequence of decades of dictatorship and state decay, writes Ibrahim Al-Haidry; Wrong perceptions - Ibrahim Al-Marashi looks at how the Iraqi media reacted to the scheduled transfer of power; Shurfat Al-Manzil Al-Faqir (Window of the Poor House) by Saadi Youssef and Post-invasion legalities">Al-Ahram Weekly,</a> in these special pages, invited Iraqi journalists and intellectuals to provide some answers. </em><small> via <a href="http://www.juancole.com/">Informed Comment</a></small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34098 Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:18:50 -0800 alahram al-ahram iraq journalism news war y2karl