Such is Egypt's regional centrality that it would be in everyone's interests for Gulf states to invest more heavily here, argues Ibrahim Nafie

Ayman El-Amir plots the rise of a resurgent Russia

In a skillful move of media diplomacy, Iran buys itself two more weeks before it has to decide which path it will follow, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

A unified position on a nuclear Iran and other Arab-Iranian issues must be forged as a matter of urgency, writes Sameh Rashed

As empires shift and die, victims of violence and destruction on the margins are unwelcome in the heart of the colonial countries that robbed them of citizenship and the possibility of going home, writes Abdel-Qader Yassine

Galal Nassar wonders what the rumblings against US hegemony really mean

The Judges' Club has emerged as the most credible embodiment of the democratisation movement's aspirations, writes Hassan Nafaa