Fresh ideas, old reactions
While the Palestinian leadership is stuck between a rock and a hard place, peacemakers are trying to pick up the pieces of a tattered peace process, report Laila Hafez in Paris and Nevine Khalil in Cairo

Anger at the Bar
Participants in a rally held last week at the Bar Association voiced their fervent support for the Palestinian struggle, Mona El-Nahhas attended

Brothers cold-shoulders municipal poll
The Muslim Brotherhood will boycott April's municipal elections. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

A slow walk to freedom
A free man once again, Saadeddin Ibrahim speaks to Jailan Halawi about his memories of nine-months of incarceration

Putting out the fire
Sectarian clashes between Muslims and Copts in an Upper Egyptian village are "under control", according to the police. Amira Howeidy could only get as far as neighbouring Maghagha to check the facts

Diabetics in danger
The sharp decline in the Egyptian pound's exchange rate against the dollar is wreaking havoc in unlikely places. Reham El-Adawi investigates the plight of the country's diabetes sufferers

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