Reigion:

Gone bad
Various corruption scandals have rendered Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a sour prospect for most Israelis, Jonathan Cook reports

Jordanian legislators up in arms
A new scientific centre on the Israeli border with Jordan provoked widespread opposition in Jordan and heated arguments in parliament, writes Sana Abdallah in Amman

Egypt:

Opposition MPs slam Israel visit
The parliament's decision to participate in the Israeli Knesset's commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Egyptian-Israeli peace has infuriated opposition and independent MPs. Gamal Essam El-Din reports

Jumping on the reform bandwagon
With talk of reform in the air, the frozen Engineers' Syndicate doesn't want to be left out in the cold. Mona El-Nahhas reports

Anti-war activist acquitted
Anti-war activist Ashraf Ibrahim described his acquittal as meaningless. Jailan Halawi reports on the state security case that wasn't

International:

Scandalous
As revelations of torture emerge from Guantanamo Bay, the British government appears as chief accomplice, reports Alistair Alexander from London

All eyes on Spain
The world needs an Inquisition of the war on terror, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Economy:

Reaching out to Iraq
Bilateral Egyptian-Iraqi relations have come into the economic spotlight. Mona El-Fiqi reports on the Iraqi Reconstruction Exhibition recently hosted in Cairo, while Sherine Nasr speaks to businessmen on the birth of an Egyptian-Iraqi Business Council

Posting profits
Aly El-Moselhi, chairman of the National Post Organisation (NPO) speaks to Niveen Wahish of how he plans to bring the 150-year-old institution into the 21st century

Heritage:

What lies beneath the paint
Should the scenes in the ancient noblemen's tombs in Beni Hassan be viewed from more than one perspective? One scholar thinks so, writes Jill Kamil