While a donor conference in Sweden pledges millions in aid to Palestinians, few in Gaza can believe they will ever see relief arrive, reports Erica Silverman from Gaza

Even if Fatah were to bring down the Hamas government, the chains of past agreements with Israel bind and strangle the Palestinians, writes Lamis Andoni

Once again, the United Nations stands complicit with, and directly abets, US-Israeli colonial and imperial designs on the Arab world, writes Gabriela Becker in Ramallah

Talk of national reconciliation continues, as does the killing

Maliki's plan for national reconciliation is a solid basis for Iraq to move towards stability, writes Hussein Alawi Al-Ani

A couple of days after a British tourist was killed and five other Western holidaymakers wounded in the centre of the Jordanian capital Amman on Monday, the Jordanian government declared that the assailant was deranged...

A sovereign Lebanon and national unity are high among Hizbullah's priorities in post-war Lebanon, Ali Fayad of Hizbullah's politburo tells Omayma Abdel-Latif in Beirut

By Elias Khoury

A little remarked consequence of Israel's war on Lebanon is the destruction of culture, Omayma Abdel-Latif writes

The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of July 2006 Israeli savagery is how do we read the phenomenon called Hizbullah, argues Hamid Dabashi

The World Food Programme's executive director tells Dina Ezzat about the challenges ahead for Lebanon and the region

The Turkish government wants to send troops to Lebanon but the public is sceptical, to say the least, writes Özlem Altan

The Somali interim government and the Islamic Courts seem finally to be coming to peaceful terms, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The AU gives up on Darfur while the US steps up its pressure on Khartoum to consent to the arrival of UN peace-keeping troops, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Impetuousness and double standards have driven the catastrophes of American regional policy and seem set to do so again if the US engages Iran, writes Ayman El-Amir

What sanctions? A new report by Chatham House -- the prestigious international think tank -- explains Iran's confidence in a region the United States doesn't seem to understand