Backwards or forwards?
The tightening US grip on Iraq, controversy over the Press Syndicate elections and a "revolutionary" letter from the leader of Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiya featured in Egypt's press this week, writes Aziza Sami

Genies out of bottles
Nothing is what it seems in the Arab world, at least not according to the press, writes Amina Elbendary

Bottom Lines
Quotes from the Arab press