As they head for presidential elections, Palestinians are enjoying a smooth transfer of power but still, who, if anybody, can fill the shoes or follow in the footsteps of Yasser Arafat? Habib Haddad of the Saudi-funded Al-Hayat;

This is the reaction to the latest news that a foreign expert will be coming to Egypt to help regulate and monitor the never-used taxi metres. "A foreign expert for the football team. And now one for taxis. Why don't they just get a foreign government?" By Amr Okasha in the opposition Egyptian newspaper Al-Wafd

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