Dina Ezzat reports on President Mubarak's launching of the ruling party's election campaign

At the US State Department, Egypt and the Obama administration review regional developments and touch on delicate national issues in talks, writes Ezzat Ibrahim in Washington

Yassin Gaber and Eric Walberg report on the recent visit of the new Serbia prime minister

Dina Ezzat reports on yet another delay in convening the Union for the Mediterranean Summit

In the middle of Egyptian efforts to resume the Mideast peace talks, Israel announced plans to build 1,300 settlement units. Doaa El-Bey reports

Mrs Suzanne Mubarak inaugurated a number of projects in Luxor and Qena governorates, reports Reem Leila

Parliamentary election battle lines are being drawn, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, and a record number of candidates will enter the fray

Can knife wielding students really be described as defending the integrity of their educational institution, asks Mohamed Abdel-Baky

We divide Egypt at our peril, writes Gamal Nkrumah

The discovery of a hieroglyphic engraving in Saudi Arabia suggests that the ancient Egyptian empire extended further than previously recognised, reports Nevine El-Aref

While the peace process tinkers into irrelevance, Israel is pressing ahead without apology in its settlement activities, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

Hopes appear to dim of inter-Palestinian reconciliation as a war of words erupts between Hamas and Fatah. When will it end, asks Saleh Al-Naami

Can the referendum on self-rule in southern Sudan be postponed, asks Asmaa El-Husseini

With a new round of negotiations beginning next week between the West and Iran, how likely is it that these will see results, asks Amani Maged

Hizbullah's opponents are playing for time, reports Lucy Fielder from Beirut

Oula Farawati looks at the bloodstained election day in Amman

Iraqi Christians are already at home, says Ramzy Baroud

It is all about streamlining procedures to enable the private sector take a lead role, Sherine Nasr reviews Doing Business report 2011

A new OECD report reveals challenges the government knows only too well, Niveen Wahish reports

On Edward Said's 75th anniversary, Yassin Gaber attended a lecture by Judith Butler

At the third annual Panorama of European Film, an initiative of the producer-director Marianne Khoury, Hani Mustafa is spoiled for choice

Osama Kamal enjoys the pleasant sound of the harp on the brink of the waves

Gamal Nkrumah gets to grips with Katherine Bakhoum's Orientalist phantasms

Amany Abdel-Moneim talks to Heidi Murkoff, best-selling author of a series of pregnancy and parenting books, on her recent visit to Egypt

On the occasion of international parenting expert Heidi Murkoff's first-ever visit to Egypt, she explained her child-rearing philosophy to the Weekly

Who will claim the FIFA Ballon d'Or and the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year awards for 2010? Who will be the first to win the FIFA World Coach of the Year for men and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for women?