Gamal Essam El-Din speaks with two leading American analysts about George Bush's foreign policy and calls for democratisation in the Middle East. Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Research Policy while Larry Wilkerson is a close aide of former US secretary of state Colin Powell and a former chief of staff at the State Department

Dina Ezzat reports on the fall-out between a prominent daily and the foreign minister

After a month of demonstrations to protest against the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, Egyptians are continuing to show their support for the ravaged country, reports Mohamed El-Sayed. Following Friday prayers in Al-Azhar more than 3,000 worshippers clashed with riot police, hurling shoes at plainclothes policemen

Dina Ezzat encounters a group of young people who, despite the harrowing images of the conflict in Lebanon, still have faith in the cause of peace

Two weeks on and Gamal Mubarak's visit to Lebanon continues to provoke controversy, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

The Egyptian students who skipped their cultural exchange programme in pursuit of the American dream were arrested in New York. Reem Leila investigates

From a modest local resort, Sidi Abdel-Rahman will rise as a magnificent tourist destination on the Mediterranean. Rehab Saad looks to the future

As the aggression against Lebanon continued, Egypt kept up its humanitarian aid contributions to the Lebanese people. Amirah Ibrahim again joined the effort