With President Mubarak guaranteeing a free and fair poll, Ibrahim Nafie asks why strains of the opposition continue to boycott Egypt's upcoming presidential elections

Reform is the only option both for the regime and the opposition, writes Ammar Ali Hassan

Factionalism equals disintegration, and internecine strife is precisely what Sharon wants, writes Mustafa Barghouti

Rather than treat India and China as rivals, the US should establish partnerships with them, treating them as equals, writes Immanuel Wallerstein

It is the US that is creating terrorists faster than Muslim governments can handle, yet Thomas Friedman sees fit to threaten the Islamic world not Washington, writes Shahid Alam

Facing up to terrorism should mean confronting the motives and aims of terrorists, not just their operational capacity, writes Adel Darwish

So much would change if all of us were truly to recognise the suffering of others, writes Samer Shehata

To focus on the role of mosques in explaining the rise of political violence is to shield the primary cause, which is government failure, writes Ramzy Baroud

If we ever hope to understand what drives a terrorist to resort to such extreme measures, we must try to see the world through his eyes, writes Mohamed Sid-Ahmed

Nasser Amin argues against the incorporation of emergency laws into the civil legal system

Pan-Arabists who yearn to end the region's injustices should think again before siding with militant Islamists whose agenda is radically different, writes Hala Mustafa