While Israel has freed Palestinian detainees in return for Gilad Shalit, we shouldn't forget it has created in Gaza the world's biggest prison, writes Clive Hambidge

Arab leaders should know that the Arab Spring is inexorable and the old status quo cannot be sustained, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

While Arab leaders lack the will to reform, revolutionaries the experience to govern, the West has many answers, with Western Muslims being the bridge, writes Ruby Amatulla

It is not enough to ban former regime cadres from political life; transitional justice is more complex, entailing reconciliation and re-assimilation, writes Eman Ragab

Great ideas alone do not bring change on the ground. Rather, it is the patient work of community and party organisation that counts, writes James Zogby

Iraq was plunged by the US into unmitigated tragedy by neoconservative ideologues, and yet the right-wing hawks are still around, beating the drums of war, writes Ramzy Baroud