Everyone seems to have gotten themselves swept up in a vicious circle: foreign intervention vs reform and around they go. Fatemah Farag reviews a press that might want to stretch the limits of its imagination

The clearing of responsibility of senior US commanders in the Abu Ghraib scandal rubs salt into Arab wounds, finds Rasha Saad

A British boycott of two Israeli universities for their practices in the occupied territories is seen as harming academic freedom. Emad Gad reviews the latest controversy