Obama's support for the Ground Zero Islamic centre called his integrity and even his citizenship into question, writes Gamal Nkrumah

Caught between Washington and his own people, the PA president has no meaningful room for manoeuvre, writes Khaled Amayreh from the West Bank

Without guarantees, it is difficult for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to commence direct negotiations with Israel, reports Doaa El-Bey

A report by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics divides opinion on the accuracy of its divorce rate findings, reports Reem Leila

The race to collect signatures for presidential candidates is heating up, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

The ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) leaders are rolling up their sleeves to prepare for November's People's Assembly elections, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Russia announced that it will begin loading fuel into Iran's Bushehr reactor this week, marking a further shift in the Iranian nuclear question, writes Amani Maged

Syria was the target of intense diplomatic efforts by Iran this week, with the country's foreign minister and top adviser to supreme leader Ali Khamenei visiting Damascus, writes Bassel Oudat

The US is trying to convince Iran that a nuclear weapons programme is not in its own best interests rather than planning military strikes, argues Ali Younes

A globalised Palestine is a normal Palestine and one that is a member of the WTO, writes Jamil Salman in Amman

While Netanyahu greeted Muslims around the world, bulldozers in Jerusalem were busy desecrating historic Muslim graves, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

The US is backing the naturalisation of Palestinian refugees in any country but Lebanon, while refusing to support their social and economic rights, writes Franklin Lamb in Beirut

Despite the suffering they have endured over recent decades, it seems the Iraqis will have to endure a lot more pain, writes Salah Hemeid

Israeli attacks on Gaza and the Lebanese border in recent weeks, together with increasing repression in the West Bank, may suggest a larger offensive is in the offing, writes Stephen Lendman

A new US military doctrine, war games and ASEAN troops in Afghanistan have stirred up an oriental hornet's nest, says Eric Walberg

July inflation figures confirm what people are feeling on the ground, Niveen Wahish reports

With wheat production at new lows and prices higher than ever before, Nader Noureldeen sees another food crisis on the horizon

Painstakingly restored, the Villa Empain, Brussels residence of the Empain family, has been turned into a centre for dialogue between east and west, writes David Tresilian

The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation among the Nile Basin Countries (2010), edited by Terja Tvedt, the American University in Cairo Press, Cairo-New York

Ati Metwaly has an experience

Osama Kamal listens to a young singer whose voice resonates with the voices of the past

As a jazz lover who is new in town, Constance Marten attended one of Cairo's Jazz nights

Fasting in the mid-August heat is just one of the challenges faced by observant Muslims this Ramadan, says Amany Abdel-Moneim

Ahli's defeat to JS Kabylie in the African Champions League brought back unwanted memories, reports Abeer Anwar