The siege of Gaza continues to destroy lives as the struggle to end it continues, says Saleh Al-Naami

More than six decades after their expulsion from Palestine, Lebanon's unwanted refugees just might be granted some basic civil rights, writes Franklin Lamb from Ain Al-Helwa Palestinian Refugee Camp

Gamal Nkumah takes a jaundiced look at the Sudanese election, boycotted by key opposition parties

Ali Belail takes the pulse of Sudanese voters at a refugee camp and in Al-Fashir

Al-Hariri's cancellation of his trip to Damascus prompts Bassel Oudat to wonder if Lebanon's long list of issues doesn't suit the Syrians

Amira Howeidy assesses the likely impact of Turkey's new all-Arabic TV channel

Seasons greetings from the newly-elected US president were all well and good, but the signals coming out of Washington have been barbed every since, fumes Mohamed Hassan Khani

An Arab League meeting called on the world to fight Israel's ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, reports Dina Ezzat

Recent targeting of Yemen by the US, ably assisted by its Middle East partner-in-crime, has made artful use of Eritrea, Al-Qaeda, Somali pirates and who-knows-what, putting the security of the Red Sea at risk -- and in their grasp, warns Galal Nassar