In Algiers, Dina Ezzat examines the agenda of the 2005 Arab Summit and takes stock of 60 years of chequered pan-Arabism, interviewing key contemporary players and profiling past luminaries

Jordan insisted it was promoting a new realism. Others differed. But one thing is clear -- the Palestinian question remains the Arab World's toughest, and most divisive, issue

In Algiers, Dina Ezzat examines the agenda of the 2005 Arab Summit and takes stock of 60 years of chequered pan-Arabism, interviewing key contemporary players and profiling past luminaries

Egypt secures the support of all 22 Arab League members in its bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council

The Palestinian foreign minister is determined to redirect foreign policy

Jordan's foreign minister may be willing to make some waves but Jordan, he says, is not going to rock the boat

Syrian circumspection over Lebanon shows it has come to terms with the changing nature of its relations with its southern neighbour