In his third instalment on Israel's historic options, Azmi Bishara argues that Arab democratisation and development are at the heart of resisting Israel's strategic choice of permanent war against the Arab nation

The common idea that every regional contest is succinctly played out in Lebanon is false, writes Amr Hamzawy

If the official Arab order is to be worth writing about, it needs to take bold steps to address the realities, not the rhetoric, of present Arab problems and establish mechanisms to deal with them, writes Hassan Nafaa