Hassan Nafaa plots the demise of the Project for the New American Century, the power-house think tank that once drove US foreign policy

Israel continues to be shaken by its defeat in its 2006 war on Lebanon, so the sabre-rattling will continue, writes Galal Nassar

Against the odds, Damascus has emerged triumphant from attempts to isolate and diminish it, writes Mustafa Labbad

Terrorism is served by the policies Bush and his Israeli allies have embraced, writes Ayman El-Amir

American Muslims continue to face discrimination, harassment and effective persecution at home, writes Abdus Sattar Ghazali

While Obama's mission is to heal a divided nation, the Republican Party seems bent on polarising the American nation even further, writes James Zogby

The allies of Israel like to think that the Palestinians are backed against a wall. They are gravely mistaken, again, writes Sam Bahour

The fundamental shared feeling that characterises regional political forces -- that theirs is the sole correct vision -- explains the multiple, contradictory and shifting fractures extant in the Islamic world, writes Khalil El-Anani