With little freedom of expression and a state-directed economy, Iran is hardly an example to emulate, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

Lebanon remains gripped by internecine struggles that can only serve external competing powers, writes Talal Salman

Galal Nassar presents an overview of four decades of disaster

Israel's continual war policy will get it nowhere, writes Amin Howeidi

While it would appear that formal colonialism largely ended in the last century, the imperial impulse entered the new millennium in altered forms, writes Ayman El-Amir