Trying again and again
It is time to put up signposts for a new era, argues Edward Said

Samson and the temple
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed wonders whether Barak's behaviour is not reminiscent of Samson's destruction of the temple

Redrawing the norm
In the first of a two-part series David Hirst dissects what he believes to be the terminal crisis of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Soapbox:
Un-Islamic patriarchy
By Zeinab Radwan

Close up:
By Salama Ahmed Salama
Quotas and quorums

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Making sense of insanity

This week: The late former Lebanese president, Charles Helw

Naguib Mahfouz
Story of a notebook