(De)liberation
The paradise promised in Iraq has been lost, writes Sinan Antoon
Update 13 April 13:00GMT

The writing on the wall
Ayman El-Amir examines the implications of the US's victory over Saddam Hussein

Comment: Day of the chicken hawks
By Hani Shukrallah

Whose Iraq?
Iraq's opposition groups are becoming increasingly sceptical about the US's true intentions in Iraq. Omayma Abdel-Latif gauges reactions

Out of the White House Loop
Northern Ireland would appear to be a curious backdrop indeed for a war summit between George W Bush and Tony Blair -- the third such meeting in as many weeks. Alexander Alistair writes from Belfast

How to run Iraq
The US and Britain believe the major challenge now is running an occupied country in a volatile region. Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

And now for Mr Hyde
David Hirst , in Riyadh, finds Saudis intensely worried that their erstwhile mighty protector, the US, is looking more and more as a grave threat

In the shadows
Recently home to an extensive crisis of internal displacement, the towns of southeastern Turkey are full of Kurdish families stuck in limbo. With the uncertainty of war at their doorstep, people are poised for another blow, writes Nyier Abdou in Diyarbakir

The lesser of three evils?
The Turkish government has unexpectedly decided to launch a regional axis with Iran and Syria. Gareth Jenkins argues that the Turkish army will ensure that the initiative remains stillborn

Common images of brutality
Palestine and Iraq are two faces of the same coin. Jonathan Cook from Tulkarm explains how

Week three for the NDP
The ruling NDP has not been having an easy time playing a whole lot of ends against the middle, as it tried to cope with the domestic fallout of the invasion of Iraq. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

A young Iraqi girl cries as a British Challenger tank moves in on the Ba'ath Party office in Basra --caption--

Tea and Jazeera Ruling the airwaves The cradle of civilisation A heritage under siege

'This will not happen to us, right mom?' By Shaden Shehab

Roadmaps to devastation
The only discernible roadmap is that linking the aggression in Iraq with that in Palestine, writes Azmi Bishara

Jews out of court
Josh Ruebner , in an open letter, calls upon Paul Wolfowitz to resign, now

The Iraqi war & the future of the UN
As the war on Iraq enters its most critical phase, Mohamed Sid-Ahmed raises questions about the future of the United Nations

Policing the academy
Joseph Massad on the McCarthyism stalking American campuses

On the road to Baghdad
Witness to the growing brutality of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, thousands of Egyptians are clamouring to join in the battle. But as Shaden Shehab finds out, the gateway to Iraq appears firmly shut