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Approving disengagement
Ariel Sharon may get his disengagement plan through his fractious government but implementation is another matter, reports Graham Usher from Jerusalem Blundering on
A new president and prime minister are in place, but it will be hard convincing Iraqis that they are not US stooges, writes Salah Hemeid June to November
The Bush administration's desperation to have an interim Iraqi government in place by 30 June is the tip of the iceberg, reports Khaled Dawoud from Washington One sect, many voices
Iraqi Shias seek political representation along sectarian lines, writes Omayma Abdel-Latif  Gilded cage with bearded guards
Karim El-Gawhary, in Riyadh, gauges the mood in residences of Western foreigners after the attacks in Al-Khobar this week in which 22 people were killed Diplomacy's new look
Egypt appears to have embraced a major shift in the way it conducts foreign policy, writes Dina Ezzat The brotherhood's latest challenge
Does the recent government clampdown on the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood bode ill for the group's future? Gihan Shahine examines the prospects  Neither heads nor tails
The Sudanese government and the country's chief armed opposition group signed three peace protocols in Kenya last week. But how long will the party in Sudan last, wonders Gamal Nkrumah What happened?
Violent clashes in Lebanon between the army and protesters highlight the country's severe economic crisis and renew memories of urban warfare. Mohalhel Fakih reports from Beirut  Karachi stormed
Once again, sectarian violence rocks Pakistan's largest city. Iffat Idris reports from Islamabad The Imam's come-uppance
The arrest of Abu Hamza El-Masri and his expected extradition to the US on terrorism charges is proving just as controversial as the man himself, writes Alistair Alexander ABB in Cairo
The November US presidential elections have become a vote of referendum on the Bush administration's policies. Yasmine El-Rashidi reports on how the turmoil in Iraq has swayed the vote of US citizens in Egypt A post-millennial Iliad
Back at the Supreme Council of Culture Youssef Rakha finds Homer livelier than most  By the pool
We stretched in the sun and exposed our soft underbelly No cream and no crop
South Africa's 2010 World Cup delegation to Zurich totally eclipsed that of Egypt's. Karim Hafez explains why |
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Sheikh Ghazi Al-Yawar (centre) was named Iraq's new president on Tuesday...  The price of failure in Iraq
by David Hirst
In pursuit of dynamism
Egypt has much to learn from Russia's economic turnaround, writes Ibrahim Nafie Who's using who?
As the US lobbies for a new Security Council resolution on Iraq it is time for the international community to reassert the framework of the UN and international law as a focal point in the management of international affairs, writes Hassan Nafaa After Abu Ghraib
Hubris, enemy of ambition, has brought down vast empires and may mark the sunset of the American century, writes Anouar Abdel Malek Confronting the G8
The time has come for the Arab parties to clarify their attitude towards the Greater Middle East Initiative. How ready are they, asks Mohamed Sid-Ahmed Russia re-visited
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