Baghdad today is testament to the shattering of US illusions in the region, but indicative, also, of terrible storms and oceans ahead, writes Hassan Nafaa

If the fall of Baghdad exposed the dangers of identifying the state solely in its leader, Iraq's past four years show the folly of those -- especially Arabs -- who thought democracy could be imposed by foreign force, writes Azmi Bishara

The current regional balance in the Middle East looks set to undergo yet another period of turbulent transformation, writes Galal Nassar

Rather than excluding religious forces, Egypt's constitutional amendments aim at regulating, for the benefit of all, the religious and the political, writes Mohamed Kamal

In the first of two pieces examining Iran's rising regional role, Amal Saad-Ghorayeb argues that rather than building a sectarian alliance, Iran in Iraq aims to confront US-led imperialism

Al-Qaeda is using regional tensions to regroup and expand in ways that are ominous indeed for the future, writes Khalil El-Anani

Our current state of fear and instability is in part founded on the very technologies once touted as bringing peoples together, writes Azmi Ashour

As Zionist political pressure builds on Arab MK Azmi Bishara, Israel's media wages its own public relations offensive, writes Asaad Talhami