A delegation from the Palestinian Christian churches was in Ireland recently to explain the situation in the occupied territories to Irish politicians, writes Stuart Littlewood in London

The Sudanese people are receding into the shadows of the south Sudan referendum as questions of wealth ownership and political interests drive the country towards partition, writes Nihad Fottouh

As can often be the case, representatives of Lebanon's factions in exile know more about sustaining divisions than overcoming them, writes James Zogby

Whether in domestic or foreign policy, Barack Obama's hallmark has been denial, avoidance and failure, writes Ramzy Baroud

By blinded ideology, the Islamists of Khartoum have brought Sudan to the verge of fracture that could pull the region south of Egypt -- and Egypt itself -- into an unpredictable morass, writes Abdel-Moneim Said