With no achievements in the peace process, Fatah's high leadership decides against gathering the movement, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

Syria is looking forward to Obama taking the reins of US power, hopeful he will end its isolation, writes Bassel Oudat from Damascus

Ahead of provincial elections, Iraq's ruling Shia coalition appears on the verge of fragmenting, writes Seif Nasrawi

What was he actually thinking when he hurled his pair of shoes at Bush? Did he intend to trigger an international storm? Sherine Bahaa tries to find out

History is a powerful force pitting old comrades against each other, discovers Nosreddine Qassem

On the sidelines of the Palestine Investment Conference in London, Gamal Essam El-Din interviewed both Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and British Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa Bill Rammell