Imploding strategy
A week into the war and it is the planners of the illegal invasion who are in shock, writes Hani Shukrallah

Flicker in the fog
Galal Nassar reviews the military situation one week after the allied aggression against Iraq

Bracing for the worst
The Iraqi opposition in exile may have been manipulating the expectations of their US patrons, Iraqi analysts told Omayma Abdel-Latif

Blair's Waterloo?
Blair is only one stray bomb away from regime change himself, writes Alistair Alexander from London

Pressing on with the protests
With hopes of a lightning allied victory over Iraq dashed by the surprise spirited Iraqi resistance, peace activists around the world are upbeat about the global anti-war campaign, writes Gamal Nkrumah

What went wrong?
US officials at the Pentagon are having a hard time explaining why the war against Iraq has not been a piece of cake so far, Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

Solitary Kuwait
By publicly supporting and offering unprecedented facilities to the US-led attack against Iraq, Kuwait has landed itself in an unenviableposition. Dina Ezzat reports

A day at 'Hyde Park'
Two days of massive anti-war street demonstrations rocked Cairo last week. Mass arrests followed. Amira Howeidy reports

An estimated 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Tahrir Square, in the heart of Cairo last Thursday, in an unprecedented display of solidarity with the people of Iraq
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DEPLETED URNANIUM: THE POLITICS WITHIN

 

Barbaric ambition
As the missiles started dropping on Iraq, Noam Chomsky wrote down his thoughts

A war like no other
But not quite as it was trailed. Hani Shukrallah looks back from the perspective of day six

Hi-tech quagmire
The war against Iraq was no picnic, and the bombs were not as smart as they were billed to be. Azmi Bishara says the solidarity with Iraq has paid off

End of the Arab order?
Will the Arab region withstand the crises it is currently facing? Hassan Nafaa explores its past and current predicaments

Iraq and the inspectors
Looking back at the UN inspection process in Iraq, Fawzi H Hammad , former president of Egypt's Atomic Energy Authority, assesses the cooperation balance sheet

Banning war
Mohamed Sid-Ahmed warns that weapons of mass destruction are threatening the human race with extinction and believes the time has come to ban wars altogether

The death of the UN (redux)
The 'New World Order' proclaimed by Bush Sr in 1991 only took hold this week, writes Jean Allain

Mobilising the NDP
The ruling party's cadres were mobilised this week to keep anti-war protests in check. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Where it hurts
The war in Iraq is hitting Egypt right in the pocket. Al-Ahram Weekly surveys the fallout

Debating jihad
Jihad need not imply a war of religions. Gihan Shahine reports on the state of the debate

Between the wars
Israelis and Palestinians spent the first days of war neither scurrying to bunkers nor taking to the streets. They were watching TV, writes Graham Usher in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Thwarting the state
Sharon is building a second separation fence, on the eastern side of the West Bank to connect with the first one. Jonathan Cook , in Jerusalem, reports