VOL. XLV

No 33

19-August-2002

Arab Press Review

(MEES Translation)

Impotence Of Arab Leadership

The following is anarticle by Hisham Shirabi(Palestinian academic living in the US) entitled OurLeaders Are Leading Us Towards Catastrophe that waspublished in al-Quds al-Arabi on 2 August:

Some people learn about life by focusing on theoreticalstudies, others by practical experience. But our leaders and those in powerlearn by neither. For this reason we see them powerless to cope with thechallenges of...