While Egypt faces numerous interconnected challenges following the landmark 25 January Revolution, with effective planning and mobilisation, the nation can rise again to former glories, writes Mohsen Zahran

Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran have both a meeting of interests in Syria, and the chance to mediate that conflict for the better, writes Abdel-Moneim Said

Despite efforts to raise the alarm by human rights organisations, Palestinian hunger strikers are being ignored by the international community, writes Richard Falk

Western capitalism is in crisis, and it is time we woke up to the fact, argues William A. Cook

The US should give priority to the Palestinian-Israeli peace process as a way towards solving the crisis with Iran, writes Nicola Nasser

Veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi has mediated many challenging conflicts in the past, but in trying to find a solution to the Syrian crisis he is taking on a mammoth task, writes Ayman El-Amir

Do the Islamists who rose to power on the back of the Arab Spring have any novel economic ideas, asks Khalil Al-Anani

The Non-Aligned Movement could be again a force, if its member countries see how much they have in common, writes Mahmoud Murad

The British policy towards the Arab Spring has been entirely consistent, contends Dan Glazebrook