Tunisia's elections give an example for the region in how to balance Islamic identity with civic politics, but will Egypt follow the same path, asks Abdel-Moneim Said

Islamists, judging from their behaviour, don't want democracy for Egypt; they want to seize power, writes Azmi Ashour

Elections, by definition, are not a means to make revolutionary change, but they are about the only hope left, given the ground the revolution has so far lost, writes Eman Ragab

The Islamist groups' understanding of economics and modern finance is fundamentally flawed from a religious point of view and may imperil Egypt's future, writes Ahmad Naguib Roushdy

While the Damascus regime is isolated and unpopular in the region, Arabs are nonetheless against foreign -- especially US -- intervention in Syria, writes James Zogby

Events in Libya opened the way to an expansion of NATO's global role, but for some its intervention was more self-serving than altruistic, writes El-Sayed Amin Shalabi

The Western reaction to Tunisian elections has been a wary gulp, notes Ramzy Baroud