Shattered promises
The crash of broken crockery accompanies Netanyahu's every move, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Dangerous side effects
The US's "new" policy on Iraq is bound to backfire -- and pro-American Arab regimes will pay the price. Hassan Nafaa explains why

The rogue states
The US has added a new term, and a new concept, to the lexicon of diplomacy: the 'rogue' state. Mohamed Sid-Ahmed comments

A state is not a war
Israeli occupation is the issue, writes Ali Kazak. What will 4 May bring?

Close up
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Force-fed freedom
For the second time in days, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi has caused a stir. This time the issue was the status of women in Libya, and his statement was indicative of the gap between what leaders and reformers think they can achieve, and actual social and political conditions. --read on--

Naguib Mahfouz Kurdish conundrum The kidnapping of Abdullah Ocalan has done more than anything else to attract world attention to the Kurdish cause --read on--

Soapbox
Lessons in humiliation
Mohamed
El-Sayed Said

This week: Sheikh Nasrallah