Last week's initiative by the Arab League secretary-general to help end the Syrian crisis is expected to fail, reports Bassel Oudat in Damascus

Feeling isolated and abandoned, Syrian human rights defenders reach out to public opinion in Cairo on stopping the Syrian regime's killing machine, Amira Howeidy reports

The Syrian regime has not hesitated to use violence against artists and intellectuals supporting the uprising in the country, writes Bassel Oudat in Damascus

While Israeli leaders speak about keeping a low profile, to repair relations with erstwhile allies, many doubt Tel Aviv is prepared to embrace a path to peace, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied Jerusalem

Palestinian refugees fear their leadership's bid to become a member state at the UN will compromise their right of return, writes Graham Usher at the United Nations

The Ramallah leadership is set on going to UN for recognition of Palestine, but other factions are sceptical, with some seeing this as a self-serving move on the part of the PA, writes Saleh Al-Naami in Gaza

The NTC purports to mimic the Turkish model, but the Western world should be wary of Libya's new "moderate Islam", warns Gamal Nkrumah

Is anyone in charge of Iraq's foreign policy, asks Salah Nasrawi

Al-Qaeda is on the run but Yemen's indefatiguable president continues to waffle, says Nasser Arrabyee

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's first official visit to the new Egypt provides further proof that sometimes it really does pay to wait, but Turkey will gain more by reining in its ambitions, says Gareth Jenkins

Is Turkey's new regional assertiveness yet another case of "the tail wagging the dog", wonders Eric Walberg

Egypt and Turkey now have a strategic partnership, Egypt's ambassador to Turkey tells Dina Ezzat

Historian Mohamed Afifi's new book offers an alternative reading of the history of Ottoman Egypt, discovers Dina Ezzat

Turkish-Egyptian economic relations have expanded rapidly over the past few years and indications are that this trend is likely to continue, reports Nesma Nowar

The visit by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Egypt is an opportunity to put relations between the two countries on new foundations, writes Mustafa El-Labbad

As the Turkish experience of democratisation and Islamist party rule becomes more and more influential, what lessons does this model have for post-revolutionary Egypt, asks Hassan Abu Taleb