While the West sits on its hands, and its antidote patents, civil society groups at home have only had anti-government rhetoric, not action, to offer, writes Ibrahim Nafie

Fifteen years after the launching of Al-Ahram Weekly, Galal Nassar takes a lateral look at the regional scene, its challenges and promises

While Danish caricatures of Islam were offensive and insensitive, we all can do more in moving towards tolerant and common understanding, writes Pernille Bramming

The global village places us all in proximity. We must learn to cultivate tolerance, for co-existence is the only option, writes Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

The self-righteous arrogance with which the West feigns shock at Muslim reactions to humiliation reveals how deeply the colonial attitude runs in the Occident, writes Mulham Assir

The cronyism of Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank is ruining the institution and driving the best of its staff out, writes Mohamed Hakki

Amin Howeidi seeks to bridge the gap between crises and competence

By Mona Anis

In an open letter to The Economist, Curtis Doebbler reveals the distance between fact and bias in Western reporting of the trial of Saddam Hussein