How should the events of 9/ 11 be best commemorated, asks Ralph Nader

In this final, Part 7 of the series on the Crescent and the Cross, Jill Kamil carries the reader through to new beginnings

Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen: what they've all had in common is sloganeering pan-Arab ideologues, happy to sacrifice everything except their privileges, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

Rather than engaging in symbolic actions at the UN, the Palestinian leadership should listen to the Palestinian people, writes Mazin Qumsiyeh

Ramzy Baroud documents a misguided congresswoman's war on the UN

If the Palestinians succeed in gaining UN membership later this month, this will be a political tsunami for Israel, write Ismail Salami and Kourosh Ziabari

Religious extremists, whether Christian or Muslim, are deviating from true religious principles and threatening violence and possible war, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy

The Palestinians suffer from exactly the same kind of exclusion and discrimination as did black South Africans before the end of the apartheid regime, writes Shafiq Morton from Cape Town

Hand-in-hand with the fight against political corruption, a new range of crimes -- those of prejudice, bigotry and religious chauvinism -- should enter into law books, writes Azmi Ashour