Ibrahim Nafie takes a look at the recent APEC meeting and its wider effects on the world

Will the "defeat" of the Bush administration in the recent elections cause a sea of change in US foreign policy? Maybe not, writes Gamil Mattar

Arab countries can make as many reasonable demands as they want but unless they have a credible course of action when those demands are not met they will never be taken seriously, writes Galal Nassar

To embrace both specificity and plurality is the challenge of religion, writes Ammar Ali Hassan

Partisan rather than national interests will determine Egypt's constitutional reform, writes Amr Hamzawy

First industry, then the banks, later health and now education. Faten Morsy decries the commodification of learning

Sectarianism, writes Azmi Bishara, is hardly a new weapon in the colonialist arsenal