Plans for perpetuity
There can be no peace under colonisation, writes Mustafa Barghouthi

Instead of intervention
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed argues that intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states need not be fatalistically accepted as an unavoidable feature of the new world order and proposes a mechanism to replace it

Globally, a poor performance
Gamil Mattar explores the flip side of hegemony

Ripple before the storm
As the people's protest movement intensifies, the G-8 desperately try to shrink public space, writes Noam Chomsky

Editorial:
Children under siege

Reflections
By Hani Shukrallah
Fear of penetration

Close up
Words of understanding
By Salama Ahmed Salama

Soapbox:
Mortgaging lives
By Mahmoud Abdel-Hayy

Naguib Mahfouz
Transfusion underway