Arabic News Daily Page for 1/18/2001
Daily Edition - Thursday, January 18, 2001
- Arafat health conditions deteriorate
The Israeli daily Maareve quoted western sources as saying on Wednesday that the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat has started to suffer weakness of his old age and a weakness in his memory, noting that this was surfaced during the few past months. Palestine, Politics, 1/18/2001 - Agadir hosts international meeting on Islamic literature
The Atlantic southern city of Agadir hosted January 16-18 the third international meeting on Islamic literature that devoted debates to the personality of Mohamed El Mokhtar Soussi, as a creator and critic. Regional, Culture, 1/18/2001 - Discovering important antiquities in Sinai
Gaballah A. Gaballah, the secretary general of the supreme council for antiquities said that LE 300 million have been allocated for excavation in Sinai peninsula and for developing monument facilities there, so as to add the area to the Egyptian tourism map. Egypt, History, 1/18/2001