Alaa Abdel-Ghani and Dina Ezzat report on yet another Egyptian-Algerian donnybrook intentionally being played down

The 2010 Cairo International Book Fair promises more than Pushkin -- with Pelevin, Prigov and Petrushevskaya, notes Gamal Nkrumah

The widescale damage left by flash floods in three governorates revives questions about the lack of crisis management plans, reports Mohamed El-Sayed

Mohamed Badei, the newly-elected supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, uses his first week in office to issue a series of conflicting statements, reports Gamal Essam El-Din

Dina Ezzat examines the debate over the two walls on Egypt's eastern borders

The Nagaa Hammadi attack attracted widespread condemnation from abroad. The government, however, insists it is an exclusively domestic concern, reports Doaa El-Bey

Nasserist MP Hamdeen Sabbahi plans to contest the presidential elections as a "popular candidate". He explains his strategy to Amira Howeidy

It's not enough to have thousands of people suffering from cancer. Now they find themselves forced to do without tried and trusted help until further notice, Reem Leila reports

ALTHOUGH the Supreme Administrative Court has lifted the ban on the niqab students are still banned from examination rooms after arriving in face veils, reports Mohamed Abdel-Baky

Local industries continue to suffer the repercussions of the international financial crisis, Mona El-Fiqi reports

From rich sounding promises, Obama's Israel-Palestine policy appears reduced to simply managing, not resolving, the conflict, writes Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank

An expired parliament and presidency make no difference to inter-Palestinian discourse, writes Saleh Al-Naami

A plane crash plunged Lebanon into mourning mixed with speculation this week, reports Lucy Fielder in Beirut

Shia determination to keep former Baathists out of Iraq's next elections has dealt a blow to Washington's desire for their rehabilitation, writes Salah Hemeid

The lesson of a recent diplomatic spat is that Tel Aviv needs Ankara much more than Ankara needs Tel Aviv, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

Gamal Nkrumah examines the ramifications of the three-pronged rebellion bedevilling the Yemeni authorities

Faced with a resurgent Al-Qaeda in Yemen the Obama administration seems to have learned nothing, writes Graham Usher in New York

Yemen's slide into chaos is sending shock waves throughout the region and even the world, documents Mohamed Hafez

Singular, inspiring and resolute leadership is above all what the Arab and Islamic world needs, writes Aijaz Zaka Syed

Two journalists, two women, two world views. Oprah Winfrey asked the questions, Injy El-Kashef gave her answers

Nehad Selaiha encounters a strange case of language failure

The cultural history of Arab and North African immigration to France is on display at the country's national museum of immigration, writes David Tresilian in Paris

Ati Metwali sums up an unusual week

Few places are more heavily laden with memory than Zahret Al-Bostan, the coffeehouse tucked in a side alley not far from Talaat Harb Square in downtown Cairo. Osama Kamal joins in the coffee ritual

A new centre for treating hepatitis C is offering new hope to patients, but ways of combating the threat effectively have still to be found, writes Ahmed Abu Ghazala

Learning how to lead a successful married life has become more necessary than ever, reports Ghada Abdel-Kader

After ousting Cameroon in the Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt will meet a familiar foe in the semi-finals. Abeer Anwar reports