Mohamed Sid-Ahmed:
Breakdown or breakthrough?

Hani Shukrallah:
New eggs for old

Abdel-Aziz El-Shafei:
The moral of the sport
Profile by
Fatemah Farag

Little green men
Inji El-Kashef makes contact

Election fever
The battle lines of the coming parliamentary elections are being drawn, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, with a record number of candidates standing

NGO case un-closed
State prosecutors are readying to throw the book at leading NGO figure Saadeddin Ibrahim and his associates, but defenders maintain the charges hardly come with national interest in mind, reports Jailan Halawi

Labour besieged
The Labour Party has received another blow with the Court of Cassation confirming sentences of imprisonment and hefty fines against four journalists from its suspended mouthpiece, Al-Shaab, reports Khaled Dawoud

Defining full supervision
Judges, entrusted with fully supervising forthcoming parliamentary elections, tell Omayma Abdel-Latif they are intent on testing the scope of their mandate

Businessmen held to account
The saga of businessmen Rami Lakah and Mustafa El-Beleidi continues this week with startling new developments. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Looking for innovative ideas
The sky is the limit for dot-com startups in Egypt, but certain issues need to be addressed first, writes Niveen Wahish

Desperate remedies
Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat held a "successful" meeting on Monday -- but it was for Barak's benefit, reports Graham Usher from Jerusalem

Death siege defied
The Russian and French planes which flew to Baghdad this week may have signalled the beginning of the end to the 10-year UN embargo on Iraq, writes Salah Hemeid

Race for East Jerusalem
The next six weeks have been deemed "critical" for the Oslo process. But for the Palestinians in East Jerusalem it is the next three years that will determine their political and social existence. Graham Usher reports from Jerusalem

The Jewish question
The suspension of the security clearance of US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk raises the question of dual loyalty, writes Thomas Gorguissian from Washington

Confer and contrast
Mona Anis joins Egyptian men of letters at the seaside. But what on earth were they doing in Mersa Matrouh, and why?

News of a pronouncement
Youssef Rakha leafs through the cultural press

Egyptian culture online
Amina Elbendary logs on to the Ministry of Culture's cyber and digital projects